Published September 3, 2020
| Version 2
Dataset
Open
Vanished open access journals
Creators
- 1. Information Systems Science, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
- 2. John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- 3. Göttingen State and University Library, University of Göttingen, Germany
Description
This dataset provides data on 176 scholarly journals that were identified to have vanished without having a currently active website for providing access to their content. Also included is a list of 881 OA journals which were identified as being inactive. Appended is a brief documentation covering the contents of the various data points.
A description of the data collection method and analysis are provided in the preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11933
For R analysis scripts, visualizations and other supporting materials please see https://github.com/njahn82/vanished_journals