Do Authors Deposit on Time? Tracking Open Access Policy Compliance

Herrmannova, Drahomira; Pontika, Nancy; Knoth, Petr

doi:10.1109/jcdl.2019.00037

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“…Martín-Martín et al (2018) used Crossref's license metadata to analyze OA levels across all countries and fields of research. Publications dates allowed researchers to study the time lag between the date of publication and date of deposit in a repository for OA publications (Herrmannova et al, 2019). The metadata about the journal volumes was used (Khoo, 2019) to examine the price sensitivity of OA authors in the context of increasing article processing charges and by Matthias et al (2019) to study journals that converted from OA to a subscription model.…”

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Crossref: The sustainable source of community-owned scholarly metadata

Hendricks

Tkaczyk

Lin

et al. 2020

Quantitative Science Studies

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This paper describes the scholarly metadata collected and made available by Crossref, as well as its importance in the scholarly research ecosystem. Containing over 106 million records and expanding at an average rate of 11% a year, Crossref’s metadata has become one of the major sources of scholarly data for publishers, authors, librarians, funders, and researchers. The metadata set consists of 13 content types, including not only traditional types, such as journals and conference papers, but also data sets, reports, preprints, peer reviews, and grants. The metadata is not limited to basic publication metadata, but can also include abstracts and links to full text, funding and license information, citation links, and the information about corrections, updates, retractions, etc. This scale and breadth make Crossref a valuable source for research in scientometrics, including measuring the growth and impact of science and understanding new trends in scholarly communications. The metadata is available through a number of APIs, including REST API and OAI-PMH. In this paper, we describe the kind of metadata that Crossref provides and how it is collected and curated. We also look at Crossref’s role in the research ecosystem and trends in metadata curation over the years, including the evolution of its citation data provision. We summarize the research used in Crossref’s metadata and describe plans that will improve metadata quality and retrieval in the future.

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Section: Data Source For Scientometricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crossref: The sustainable source of community-owned scholarly metadata

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Tkaczyk

Lin

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Quantitative Science Studies

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“…The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research devolves responsibility to institutions to develop and maintain OA policies (Australian Government, 2018), but the results this study demonstrates that only 20 (50%) of universities have a formal OA policy. This finding is particularly concerning given the wealth of evidence from around the world that confirms the positive impact of strong and consistent OA policies (Herrmannova et al, 2019;Huang et al, 2020;Larivière & Sugimoto, 2018;Rieck, 2019;Robinson-Garcia et al, 2020).…”

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Free for all, or free-for-all? A content analysis of Australian university open access policies

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Kingsley

Jamali

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Recent research demonstrates that Australia lags in providing open access to research outputs. In Australia, while the two major research funding bodies require open access of outputs from projects they fund, these bodies only fund a small proportion of research conducted. The major source of research and experimental development funding in Australian higher education is general university, or institutional, funding, and such funds are not subject to national funder open access policies. Thus, institutional policies and other institutional supports for open access are important in understanding Australia's OA position. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to understand the characteristics of Australian institutional open access policies and to explore the extent they represent a coherent and unified approach to delivering and promoting open access in Australia. Open access policies were located using a systematic web search approach and then their contents were analysed. Only half of Australian universities were found to have an open access policy. There was a wide variation in language used, expressed intent of the policy and expectations of researchers. Few policies mention monitoring or compliance and only three mention consequences for non-compliance. While it is understandable that institutions develop their own policies, when language is used which does not reflect national and international understandings, when requirements are not clear and with consequences, policies are unlikely to contribute to understanding of open access, to uptake of the policy, or to ease of transferring understanding and practices between institutions. A more unified approach to open access is recommended.

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“…Another example from the tested countries, Brazil, has a fairly low number of funder (1) and institutional policies (22) -especially when compared with the number of universities in the country -and its OA percentage is slightly lower than Portugal's. A recent study [8] discovered that the UK is a leader not only in the growth of OA but also leads in the shortest time lag, by observing that strict time limited deposit requirements increase OA counts. If we take into account the number of funders and institutional OA policies, they seem to contribute to the growth of OA in the country.…”

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“…In this research, we examined OA performances of eight countries -Austria, Brazil, Germany, India, Portugal, Russia 7 , United Kingdom and United States -and their universities, which are included in the Times of Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 (THE WUR) 8 . In contrast to other similar tools 9 , 10 , THE WUR provides a direct indicator of how universities rank with regards to research as well as citations.…”

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Open Access 2007 - 2017: Country and University Level Perspective

Gyawali

Pontika

Knoth

2020

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020

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Each year the number of Open Access (OA) papers is gradually increasing. We carried out a study investigating 400 universities from 8 countries to examine: i) the total number of OA papers per country, ii) proportion of OA papers published by representative universities in each country classified into three tiers of research quality: high, middle and low, iii) how universities within the same country compare to each other and iv) the growth of OA papers in countries per year. We conclude that among the analysed countries the UK and USA rank first and second respectively, while Russia and India are positioned towards the bottom of the list. We observe no link between the proportion of OA papers published by authors at a university and the university ranking, with some universities in the middle university rank tier having a larger proportion of OA papers than those in the high tier. CCS CONCEPTS • Information systems → Data mining; Digital libraries and archives; • Applied computing → Publishing.

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Do Authors Deposit on Time? Tracking Open Access Policy Compliance

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Crossref: The sustainable source of community-owned scholarly metadata

Crossref: The sustainable source of community-owned scholarly metadata

Free for all, or free-for-all? A content analysis of Australian university open access policies

Open Access 2007 - 2017: Country and University Level Perspective

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