Monitoring and evaluation of UKRI's Open Access Policy: Exploring the use of open data sources to inform baseline values - Dataset

This dataset accompanies the report "Monitoring and evaluation of UKRI's Open Access Policy: Exploring the use of open data sources to inform baseline values", which is available via Zenodo.

It provides record-level data of UKRI-funded and UK-affiliated research output (limited to journal articles with Crossref DOIs) published between 2012 and 2022 - including bibliographic metadata as well as data on open access availability, publisher, national and international collaborations, citations, views and downloads, altmetrics and subjects (fields). All variables are documented in the data dictionary included in this Zenodo record.

The code used to generate the dataset from open data sources is available on GitHub. 

The following data sources were used:

• Gateway to Research (records downloaded between 2023-11-05 and 2023-11-13)

• Crossref (Metadata Plus snaphot 2023-10-31, Crossref member route API 2024-01-23)

• OpenAlex (data snapshot 2023-10-18)

• Unpaywall (data snapshot 2023-11-27)

• IRUS UK (2024-04-03)

• Crossref Event Data (2023-04-01)

The project made use of Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) infrastructure, which is documented on GitHub: https://github.com/The-Academic-Observatory.