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How often is which Creative Commons license used in scholarly publishing and are there differences between their use in gold (fully) open acces (OA) and hybrid articles?

I am looking for a table like this, with the amount of articles:

license       gold OA    hybrid OA
CC-BY         A          B
CC-BY-NC-ND   C          D
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Additionally, what are the average charges for both types of articles (gold open access and hybrid) depending on the different licenses?

I am looking for a table like this, with the average costs of the license:

license      gold OA    hybrid OA
CC-BY        A          B
CC-BY-NC-ND  C          D
...

Update: Some results of my further research:

  1. As mentioned in a comment, there is a study for gold open access journals. Hybrid journals are not investigated.
  2. There is data availible from OASPA members. They provide a chart showing the growth of Fully Open Access (OA) journals using a CC-BY license. Additionally, there is an Excel file including also data for hybrid open access journals. Unfortunately, there is no information about the charges and the source of this data.
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    Hybrid articles are more and more published under CC licenses. You're right that this has been different in the past. I recently found a journal charging more for CC-BY than for CC-BY-NC-ND. That's when I started asking myself this question: Which license do most authors choose and what are the average charges by license?
    – FuzzyLeapfrog
    Jan 28, 2017 at 14:56
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    I see; good things are happening then! Good luck in your quest, I'm afraid I can't be of help.
    – Raphael
    Jan 28, 2017 at 17:41
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    @FuzzyLeapfrog uh indeed, since a week ago. Archived here: web.archive.org/web/20171123080853/https://www.ub.uit.no/wiki/…
    – Nemo
    Aug 2, 2018 at 16:07
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    @Nemo Thank you so much! There is a very well written text explaining in detail why NC is not what most people think it is and why it shouldn't be used. Unfortunately, it's only available in German. irights.info/wp-content/uploads/userfiles/…
    – FuzzyLeapfrog
    Aug 2, 2018 at 17:58
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    @FuzzyLeapfrog yes, that's a leaflet we at Wikimedia helped make, it's translated at this page (linked from the page above): meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/…
    – Nemo
    Aug 3, 2018 at 5:45

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Even though there is still no complete data set answering my question, I recently found a public data set at least answering my questions for hybrid OA. It's called Hybrid Open Access Monitor. The data and the source code is available on GitHub. It is based on data from Crossref and the Open-APC dataset, also freely available on GitHub. Some more explanation can be found on the About page. As an example, here are the numbers of hybrid articles published by Elsevier split into the different licences.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Author: Najko Jahn (Scholarly Communication Analyst, SUB Göttingen), 2017.

This figure is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Author: Najko Jahn (Scholarly Communication Analyst, SUB Göttingen), 2017.

You can also see, how much each country spent (relatively) of the total costs, if you go to the monitor's website.

For Gold Open Access, there is the study already mentioned in the question showing the usage of different CC licences.

Combining both will lead to a data set of the usage of CC licences in Gold and Hybrid Open Access. Nevertheless, regarding the costs, one has to dig even a bit deeper but I'm sure there will be published data soon and I will update this answer accordingly.

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