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RELX Group

RELX Group

RELX Group is an information analytics company (LexisNexis, Elsevier). Digital scripts may appear on academic, legal, and scientific publisher sites within the RELX portfolio for analytics and subscription access management.

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Overview

RELX Group is an information analytics company that owns LexisNexis, Elsevier, and other academic and legal publishing brands. Its scripts appear on publisher sites within the RELX portfolio for analytics and subscription access management.

What This Script Does

  • Tracks page views, article downloads, and content engagement across RELX publisher properties
  • Manages subscription authentication and entitlement verification for gated content
  • Collects usage analytics to inform content licensing and publishing decisions
  • May set cookies for session management, access control, and analytics tracking
  • Aggregates usage data across institutional and individual subscriber accounts

Consent & Compliance

  • Category: Analytics / Functional
  • GDPR: Analytics tracking requires consent unless limited to anonymized or aggregated data. Subscription access management is functional. The dual purpose means both bases may apply depending on specific script behavior.
  • CCPA: Usage data tied to individual accounts is personal information subject to disclosure requirements.
  • ePrivacy: Session and authentication cookies qualify as strictly necessary. Analytics cookies require consent.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

Conditional. The subscription access management functionality is essential and should not be blocked. However, the analytics tracking components that collect behavioral data beyond session management should be blocked until consent is obtained.

Is RELX Group GDPR compliant?

RELX Group typically loads analytics and functional trackers, which are not strictly necessary for your site to work. Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, non-essential cookies and trackers must stay blocked until a visitor gives clear opt-in consent. So RELX Group can be fully GDPR compliant, but only if your site holds its scripts until consent is granted and lets visitors decline just as easily. Compliance depends on how your site loads RELX Group, not on RELX Group itself.

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Consent Categories

AnalyticsFunctional

Also Known As

RELX GroupLexisNexisElsevieracademic publisher analyticsReed Elseviersubscription access management

Industries

Computers Electronics and Technology

Tracked Domains (1)

RELX Group's trackers are occasionally seen, seen on under 1% of the sites ConsentStack has scanned. Scan your own site to see which of these are firing before consent.

online-metrix.netEssential

online-metrix.net is an essential domain operated by RELX Group, used to keep the site working, including security, load balancing, and sessions. Seen on under 1% of scanned sites.

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