[GOAL] Elsevier as an open access publisher

"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"