Merits and Limits: Applying open data to monitor open access publications in bibliometric databases
« Identifying and monitoring Open Access (OA) publications might seem a trivial task while practical efforts prove otherwise. Contradictory information arise often depending on metadata employed. We strive to assign OA status to publications in Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus while complementing it with different sources of OA information to resolve contradicting cases. We linked publications from WOS and Scopus via DOIs and ISSNs to Unpaywall, Crossref, DOAJ and ROAD. Only about 50% of articles and reviews from WOS and Scopus could be matched via a DOI to Unpaywall. (…) »
source > arxiv.org, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Stephan Stahlschmidt, 13 février 2019, arXiv:1902.03937
