Licenses Overview

All license values in OpenAlex

Licenses describe the terms under which open access works are available. They are assigned to individual work locations.

Values

ID	Display name
apache-2-0	Apache License 2.0
cc-by	CC BY
cc-by-nc	CC BY-NC
cc-by-nc-nd	CC BY-NC-ND
cc-by-nc-sa	CC BY-NC-SA
cc-by-nd	CC BY-ND
cc-by-sa	CC BY-SA
gpl-v2	GNU GPLv2
gpl-v3	GNU GPLv3
isc	ISC License
mit	MIT
other-oa	other open access
public-domain	public domain (CC0)

Use these values with the license filter on works: filter=primary_location.license:cc-by