Dear All,

To achieve its mission, ICTP is committed to provide, through its Library, the scientific literature necessary to support the whole ICTP scientific community of researchers, visitors and participants in the activities organized by the Centre.

Unfortunately, the constant increases of journal subscription costs over the years, along with the commercial policies of big publishers, have led to an unsustainable situation with an ever-growing part of the Library budget allocated to pay for the bundle packages of journals of big publishers.

The Director, after thorough discussions with ICTP faculty, has decided not to renew the subscription contract with the publisher Elsevier. The high costs of the contract, which expired in 2017, did not represent a good value for money and the proposed new contract did not allow the flexibility that a relatively small institute like ICTP requires to strategically distribute its budget.

What will this mean for ICTP's Library users? ICTP will keep post-termination access rights to 53 titles that it has historically subscribed to, for contents published between 1995-2017 (list below).
Data on the availability will be reported in the Library online public access catalogue OPAC http://cat.ictp.it

The Library is committed to minimize the impact of the Elsevier cancellation and will address requests from users through its reference service/information desk.

If you need a paper and hit a paywall, you are encouraged to either check alternative legal full text sources  https://library.ictp.it/researchers-toolbox/alternative-full-text-sources.aspx
or request articles using the Document Delivery service already in place  https://library.ictp.it/researchers-toolbox/request-an-article.aspx

The Library will monitor the trend of requests to measure the effects of the Elsevier cancellation on the service.
Any comments/suggestions are welcome.


Nicoletta Zar
Acting Head, Library Services
Marie Curie Library
phone: +39 040 2240 215
e-mail: library@ictp.it

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Elsevier journals available after cancellation - Contents 1995-2017
Acta Materialia
Advances in Mathematics
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire
Annals of Physics
Applied Surface Science
Astroparticle Physics
Chemical Physics Letters
Computational Materials Science
Computers & Fluids
Endeavour
Expositiones Mathematicae
Global and Planetary Change
International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
Journal of Algebra
Journal of Approximation Theory
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Differential Equations
Journal of Functional Analysis
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Journal of Number Theory
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Materials Letters
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Nuclear Physics A
Nuclear Physics B
Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Suppelements
Optics Communications
Pattern Recognition
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Physica B: Condensed Matter
Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
Physics Letters A
Physics Letters B
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
Physics Reports
Planetary and Space Science
Renewable Energy
Solar Energy
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Solid State Communications
Solid State Ionics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Surface Science (Including Surface Science Letters)
Surface Science Reports
Synthetic Metals