Prevalence of Creative Commons licenses in the Directory of Open Access Journals by discipline, author fees, number of journals per country and publisher
Creator	Ulrich Herb, u.herb@scinoptica.com									
Orcid	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-3119 									
Date	September 2014
doi: 	10.5281/zenodo.11616	

Please cite as: Ulrich Herb (2014). Prevalence of Creative Commons licenses in the Directory of Open Access Journals by discipline, author fees, country and publisher according to the number of journals. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.11616

data collection 2014-08-22: 
- download of the Directory of Open Access Journals' (DOAJ) CSV file [http://doaj.org/csv]
- collecting data from the DOAJ webinterface

results:
a) prevalence of Creative Commons licences and Open Licenses among the journals listed by the DOAJ
b) prevalence of Creative Commons licences and Open Licenses within selected disciplines (science, technology, medicine, social sciences, philosphy (general), history (general), language & literature
c) prevalence of Creative Commons licences and Open Licenses among APC-based journals and journals that do not use APCs (article porcessing charges)
d) prevalence of Creative Commons licences and Open Licenses within countries with a big or small volume of open access journals (the ten countries with the highest volume of open access journals vs. all countries publishing a maximum of 15 open access journals)
e) prevalence of Creative Commons licences and Open Licenses within journals published by big or small publishers (publishers with more then 20 open access journals vs. publishers with a maximum of 20 open access journals)


filelist:

readme.txt this file
doaj_20140822_0700_utf8.csv raw data downloaded from the DOAJ website
Big_publishers.csv data on publishers with more than 20 open access journals
Small_publishers.csv data on publishers with a maximum 20 open access journals
doaj_country_high.csv data on the ten countries with the highest volume of open access journals
doaj_country_low.csv data on countries publishing a maximum of 15 open access journals
journals_per_country.csv number of journals per country
doaj_publisher.csv journals sorted by publisher
results_and_graphics.ods the results of the analysis (as tables) and their visualisations