Data on the actual use of open data/ open source on pre-prints at arXiv/bioRxiv

Articles submitted (1st edition) to the preprint server arXiv/bioRxiv were converted to text and analysed as follows :

• For arXiv articles, nationality was assigned to the manuscript using the first occurrence of the email address in the manuscript.
• For bioRxiv articles, we assigned nationality using the country tag information in the metadata about the first author.
• We listed the URLs that appeared in each manuscript.
• We checked how many articles contained a particular URL (e.g. github; https://github.com ) by year, month and nationality.

This dataset describes the results of the above work.