Re: [GOAL] levels of open access based on Web of Science and oaDOI data

[Thomas Krichel]

  Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) writes

> We very much value your feedback. Because all researchers and
> policymakers (with access to WoS, not trivial)

  Yeah right. I don't see the point, unless WoS pay you for it,
  to evaluate their closed-access tools. That time could be
  much more usefully spent building open access tools and/or
  data.

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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
  skype:thomaskrichel
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[GOAL] levels of open access based on Web of Science and oaDOI data

[Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)]

Dear all,

over the past few weeks Bianca Kramer and I have been test driving the new 
option in Web of Science to filter publications by OA-status. This option has 
replaced the earlier filter that only determined OA status at the journal level 
and thus only had papers from full gold OA journals as positives. The new 
filter uses oaDOI from ImpactStory and is thus able to detect much more, and at 
a granular level.

Of course it is early days and there are still methodological and other 
caveats, but it seemed important to assess if this data could inform the OA 
community on progress, reliably show the various levels of OA by field, 
country, institution, funder etc. and point at positive examples.

All this and more, such as a case study diving into the various types of OA 
(green, hybrid, gold, bronze) is in our preprint at PeerJ that is now live here:

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3520v1

We very much value your feedback. Because all researchers and policymakers 
(with access to WoS, not trivial) can now easily get these detailed OA data, it 
seems very important to gauge the value and applicability of the new WoS filter.

Of course we shared all the data.

Best,

Jeroen Bosman


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Abstract:

Across the world there is growing interest in open access publishing among 
researchers, institutions, funders and publishers alike. It is assumed that 
open access levels are growing, but hitherto the exact levels and patterns of 
open access have been hard to determine and detailed quantitative studies are 
scarce. Using newly available open access status data from oaDOI in Web of 
Science we are now able to explore year-on-year open access levels across 
research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and 
try to relate the resulting patterns to disciplinary, national and 
institutional contexts. With data from the oaDOI API we also look at the 
detailed breakdown of open access by types of gold open access (pure gold, 
hybrid and bronze), using universities in the Netherlands as an example. There 
is huge diversity in open access levels on all dimensions, with unexpected 
levels for e.g. Portuguese as language, Astronomy & Astrophysics as research 
field, countries like Tanzania, Peru and Latvia, and Zika as topic. We explore 
methodological issues and offer suggestions to improve conditions for tracking 
open access status of research output. Finally, we suggest potential future 
applications for research and policy development. We have shared all data and 
code openly.


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