Position statements

Elsevier is actively involved in discussing the key issues on a range of important issues related to scholarly publishing including open access, open data and open science. We are committed to making our written submissions and statements open and transparent for everyone to read.

Open access

• Publisher statement on the Rights Retention Strategy 

• Elsevier summary response to UKRI Open Access Review Consultation

• Elsevier response to UKRI Open Access Review Consultation

• Elsevier response to OSTP Request for Information on Public Access

• Elsevier response to the Swedish Research Council's draft national guidelines

• Response to Independent Review of RCUK policy

• Elsevier response to the draft open access policy - DBT/DST

• Consultation on the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

• Consultation on the Post-2014 Research Excellence Framework

• Elsevier response to HEFCE Open Access Policy

• Response to STC Inquiry on Peer Review

• OSTP Data Response

• OSTP Publications Response

• Reed Elsevier submission to House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry on OA policy implementation

• Reed Elsevier submission to House of Commons BIS Select Committee inquiry on Government Open Access policy

• Elsevier response to the Finch Report

Research data and metrics

• Elsevier endorses the Sorbonne declaration on research data rights

• Elsevier endorses the European Open Science Cloud Declaration

• Elsevier response to Concordat on Open Research Data

• NIH Request for Information (RFI): Metrics to Assess Value of Biomedical Digital Repositories

• NIH Request for Information (RFI): Input on Sustaining Biomedical Data Repositories

• NIH Request for Information (RFI): Input on National Cancer Institute Metadata Repository and Services

• Elsevier’s Response to Request for Information: Input on NIAID Data Sharing Repository, Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort), and Services Part 1 and Part 2

• Elsevier endorses the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment

Other statements

• Open letter in response to the request for Elsevier to withdraw its Text and Data Mining policy

• Request for Information (RFI): Soliciting Input for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Strategic Planning Process

• Support for Library funding

  • Letter to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, and Education, House Appropriations Committee

  • Letter to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, and Education, Senate Appropriations Committee