Patient & Caregiver Access to Elsevier Journal Papers

[Chris Johnston]

Just stumbled across this page on the Elsevier website and wondered if anyone else was aware that this had been introduced - and if anyone has tried it?
Or is anyone aware of similar offers from other journal publishers?

From their site:
Patient access

• Patients and non-professional caregivers can make requests for individual papers related to medicine and healthcare at no cost.

• These papers can be requested by e-mailing patientaccess@elsevier.com. We aim to provide the requested articles within 48 hours.

• Please include the article title and author(s), date published, and/or the URL if available. This will ensure that our team can locate the requested content as quickly as possible.

• Please include the text “I confirm I am a patient or non-professional caregiver” to confirm your eligibility to us this service; please do not disclose any further details or personal data

• In addition, patients and non-professional caregivers who participate in the publication of an article and have a preference or need to publish that article open access, but lack the funds for the Article Publishing Charge, can make a request for a waiver of the APC by emailing oapolicy@elsevier.com. Please include the article title; author(s); and the journal title you have submitted the article to.

You can access the full page at: https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/healthcare-and-patients