Abstract
This article documents Open access article processing charges (OA APC) longitudinal study 2015 preliminary dataset available for download from the OA APC dataverse [1]. This dataset was gathered as part of Sustaining the Knowledge Commons (SKC), a research program funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The overall goal of SKC is to advance our collective knowledge about how to transition scholarly publishing from a system dependent on subscriptions and purchase to one that is fully open access. The OA APC preliminary data 2015 Version 12 dataset was developed as one of the lines of research of SKC, a longitudinal study of the minority (about a third) of the fully open access journals that use this business model. The original idea was to gather data during an annual two-week census period. The volume of data and growth in this area makes this an impractical goal. For this reason, we are posting this preliminary dataset in case it might be helpful to others working in this area. Future data gathering and analyses will be conducted on an ongoing basis. We encourage others to share their data as well. In order to merge datasets, note that the two most critical elements for matching data and merging datasets are the journal title and ISSN.
Highlights
This dataset includes information on open access journals derived from the Directory of Open
Access Journals (DOAJ), developed as the base for a longitudinal study on the open access article processing charges (APC) method used by about a third of open access journals
In addition to Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata, this dataset includes 2010 APC data provided by Solomon and Björk [2], a smaller set of pilot project data collected by the research team in 2013, and a fuller set of data collected on APCs by the research team in 2014 and 2015, as well as additional data relating to APC sub-model, analysis of publisher type, problematic article-level metadata screen scraped from DOAJ, and a custom subject analysis
Summary
This dataset includes information on open access journals derived from the Directory of Open. In addition to DOAJ metadata, this dataset includes 2010 APC data provided by Solomon and Björk [2], a smaller set of pilot project data collected by the research team in 2013, and a fuller set of data collected on APCs by the research team in 2014 and 2015, as well as additional data relating to APC sub-model (e.g., variations in pricing, page versus article charges), analysis of publisher type, problematic (but possible useful) article-level metadata screen scraped from DOAJ, and a custom subject analysis To date, these data were used as the basis for a 2014 DOAJ APC survey [3]. This dataset will facilitate and speed up the work of other researchers, and this document describing the data is necessary to understand and analyse the data
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