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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Harvesting the data some days ago the most frequently used
license information were:</p>
<p> 675,343 : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/">http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/</a> <br>
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<p>191,530 : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</a><br>
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122,013 : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/</a><br>
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The first one is not CC-BY but according to <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.elsevier.com/about/company-information/policies/open-access-licenses">https://www.elsevier.com/about/company-information/policies/open-access-licenses</a><br>
<br>
the users at our universities have access to these articles, and
thatīs what counts I would say.<br>
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Out of about 15,2 million Elsevier article metadata about 989,000
metadata records point to free accessible articles. <br>
<br>
I donīt want to judge these numbers, but I have heard of publishers,
that have 100% OA. <br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Dirk<br>
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Dirk Pieper<br>
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