Hosting articles
Hosting articles
Platforms such as repositories, preprint servers and scholarly collaboration networks can host research published by Elsevier following the guidelines below.
Principles
The following principles underpin our hosting policy:
Elsevier supports the STM Article Sharing Principles Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet and we want to work in partnership with organizations aggregating, and making available, versions of articles published by researchers with Elsevier
This policy complements our sharing policy, which outlines how authors can share their research, and agreements with subscribing institutions about how licensed material can be shared
We believe that we all have a shared responsibility to work together to ensure researchers can share research quickly, easily and responsibly
This requires active partnering to ensure the coherence and integrity of the scientific record, to promote responsible sharing in a way that respects the needs of all stakeholders, and to enable impact and usage measurement in a distributed environment
Hosting platforms should develop and share COUNTER compliant Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet usage statistics so that researchers and publishers have a full picture of how articles are shared and used
Where commercial organizations seek to benefit from hosting versions of articles on their platforms, formal commercial arrangements should be made with Elsevier. Non-commercial organizations can host documents under the terms of this policy.
Sites or repositories that provide a service to other organizations or agencies, even if those other organizations or agencies are themselves non-commercial entities, are considered to be providing a commercial service, and this service activity will also require a commercial arrangement with Elsevier
Non-commercial platforms
Guidance for non-commercial organizations and institutional repositories:
Preprint
Preprints can be hosted anytime, anywhere
If accepted for publication, then hosting organizations should link via the DOI from the preprint to the formal publication
Millions of researchers have access to the formal publications, and those links will help your users to find, access, cite and use the best available version
arXiv and RePEc can update a preprint immediately with the accepted manuscript (with CC BY-NC-ND) and a DOI link to the formal publication
Please note: Some society-owned titles and journals that operate double-anonymized peer review have different preprint policies, please check the journals Guide for Authors for further information
Preprints should not be added to or enhanced in any way in order to appear more like, or to substitute for, the final versions of articles
Accepted manuscript
A research institute can host its employees' and students' accepted manuscripts immediately via their institutional repository for internal institutional uses, or as part of an invitation-only work group on commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement
A research institute can host its employees' and students' accepted manuscripts publicly after the embargo period Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet:
Via non-commercial hosting platforms, such as their institutional repository
Via commercial sites with which Elsevier has an agreement
As part of non-commercial Massive Open Online Courses
Other non-commercial organizations can host manuscripts, including publicly, after the embargo period Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet has passed
In all cases, accepted manuscripts should:
Link to the formal publication via its DOI
Bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license — this is easy to do
Not be stored on an insecure network, or be discoverable or accessible except as described above
Not be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the Published Journal Article
Not be used or posted for commercial gain without a formal agreement with Elsevier
Not be used to substitute for services provided directly by the journal, for example, article aggregation, systematic distribution via e-mail lists or list servers or share buttons, posting or linking by commercial companies for use by customers of such companies (e.g., pharmaceutical companies and physician-prescribers)
Published journal article (PJA)
Policies for hosting published journal articles differ for subscription articles and open access articles:
Subscription articles
If you are the author’s institution, you may: distribute copies for classroom teaching and internal training, include the article in (online) coursework and courseware programs for use within the institution, include the article in funding applications, and publicly post the article as part of theses and dissertations, provided full attribution and acknowledgement of the original publication of the article (with DOI links back to the formal publications on ScienceDirect) is given.
Otherwise sharing is by agreement only
Open access articles
May be hosted according to the author-selected end-user license
This license should appear on the hosted version of the article along with a DOI link to the citable version of record on ScienceDirect
Commercial platforms
Guidance for commercial organizations:
Preprint
Preprints can be hosted anytime, anywhere
If accepted for publication, then hosting organizations should link via the DOI from the preprint to the formal publication
Millions of researchers have access to the formal publications, and those links will help your users to find, access, cite and use the best available version
Preprints should not be added to or enhanced in any way in order to appear more like, or to substitute for, the final versions of articles
Accepted manuscript
Commercial organizations, such as Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs), are required to have an agreement with Elsevier for the aggregating and making available of articles on their platform
Subject to an agreement, a commercial organization can immediately host its users' accepted manuscripts for private scholarly sharing as part of an invitation-only work group and for public access after an embargo period
In all cases, accepted manuscripts should link to the formal publication via its DOI and bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license — this is easy to do
Manuscripts may not be:
Stored on an insecure network, or be discoverable or accessible except as described above
Added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the Published Journal Article
Used or posted for commercial gain without a formal agreement with Elsevier, for example, by:
Associating advertising with the full-text of the manuscript
Providing hosting services to other repositories or to other organizations
Charging fees for document delivery or access
Used to substitute for services provided directly by the journal, for example:
Article aggregation
Systematic distribution via e-mail lists or list servers or share buttons
Posting or linking by commercial companies for use by customers of such companies (e.g., pharmaceutical companies and physician-prescribers)
Published journal article (PJA)
Policies for hosting published journal articles differ for subscription articles and gold open access articles:
Subscription articles
Sharing is by agreement only
Gold open access articles
May be hosted according to the author-selected end-user license
This license should appear on the hosted version of the article along with a DOI link to the citable version of record on ScienceDirect
Help and support
If you would like any additional information about this policy, please contact Permissions Helpdesk Support Center Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet
Please see our sharing policy FAQs
For further information for commercial platforms