[GOAL] Elsevier as an open access publisher

[Dirk Pieper]

Hi,

reading the discussion about Elsevier as an "OA publisher" and the 
discussion about CC-BY as an "requirement" for OA we analysed the 
Elsevier metadata in Crossref.

Harvesting the data some days ago the most frequently used license 
information were:

675,343 : http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/

191,530 : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

122,013 : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

The first one is not CC-BY but according to

https://www.elsevier.com/about/company-information/policies/open-access-licenses

the users at our universities have access to these articles, and that´s 
what counts I would say.

Out of about 15,2 million Elsevier article metadata about 989,000 
metadata records point to free accessible articles.

I don´t want to judge these numbers, but I have heard of publishers, 
that have 100% OA.

Best,

Dirk


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Dirk Pieper
Bielefeld UL - Deputy Director

www.uni-bielefeld.de
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