Elsevier Article Supply Service

Due to the long interrupted negotiations between the DEAL consortium and the publisher Elsevier, more than 200 German academic institutions, including the University of Kassel, have not had access to the publisher's current journal content since 2018. Kassel University Library therefore offered its users a service on this page for ordering Elsevier journal articles free of charge that were no longer accessible. A DEAL contract was successfully concluded with Elsevier at the end of 2023. Access to all of the publisher's journal content is therefore available again since the beginning of 2024. The complete list of titles can be found here. The free ordering service is therefore no longer available.

The entry of all Elsevier journals in our catalog systems KARLA and EZB has not yet been completed, so that not all titles can be found there with a full text link. Cataloging will be completed soon. However, you can already access the complete Elsevier title portfolio.

Within the university network on campus:

Go to Elsevier's publishing platform ScienceDirect. You will be automatically recognized as an authorized user and will immediately have unrestricted access. Simply start your research.

Off campus:

A VPN connection to the university network is neither sufficient nor necessary for access. Instead, you must log in with your university account. Proceed as follows:

  1. Visit the ScienceDirect publishing platform.
  2. Click on "Sign In" at the top right.
  3. Click on "Sign in via your organization".
  4. Then search for "Unversität Kassel" and select it.
  5. You will be redirected to an ITS page. Log in there with your university account.
  6. You will then be taken back to ScienceDirect. There you can either additionally log in with a personal Elsevier account or continue anonymously. We recommend the second option for data protection reasons.

You can now access all Elsevier journals and search their contents.