In recent year, Elsevier changes its policy for several hybrid journal to a new agreement policy of journal with the potential funding authorities (such as the University of Florida, Carnegie Mellon University, Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources, California State University, Association of Universities in the Netherlands, Norwegian consortium for higher education and research, Polish consortium, Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme, Couperin consortium, France, Bibsam Consortium, Sweden, Irish Consortium, Qatar National Library Consortium, Swiss universities) and Elsevier to pay open access fees.
However, I wonder about biased evaluation for these agreed authorities. If other country's authorities are not capable of doing such agreement, there should be an issue of deprivation for those are from non-agreement affiliated authors?
Your question is not clear enough. Do you mean that authors from countries (research organisations) that have no agreement with Elsevier to pay OA fees would (might) be discriminated against?
Btw, the Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme is not a funding agency: it pays subscription fees, but does not fund research.
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