Open access licenses

We aim to provide the best choice of user license options which define how readers can reuse open access articles published on our platforms.

Elsevier's policy

Offer a choice between a commercial and a noncommercial Creative Commons license for gold open access articles in our proprietary titles. The choice is dependent on the journal in which the author chooses to publish. Please refer to the journal's homepage for specific details.
Use the Elsevier user license for our open archive content
We support green open access and accepted manuscripts can be self -archived following our sharing guidelines and are required to attach a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Choosing a license

Once selected, Creative Commons user licenses are non-revocable. We recommend authors check if their funding body requires a specific license. See the Creative Commons website for more details about what to consider before choosing a user license. Click here for a full list of user licenses used by Elsevier.

User license	Read, print and download	Redistribute or republish the final article (e.g. display in a repository)	Translate the article	Download for text and data mining purposes	Reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works	Sell or re-use for commercial purposes
CC BY 4.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0	Yes	Yes	Yes For private use only and not for distribution	Yes	Yes	No
Elsevier user license	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No

Please note: Under the CC BY-NC-ND license and for the Elsevier user license permitted 3rd party reuse is only applicable for non-commercial purposes. For further details on the rights granted to Elsevier see our copyright information or to obtain permission for commercial use see our permission information. Also note further permission may be required from the rights owner for any content within an article that is identified as belonging to a third party.