Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

Jahn, Najko; Matthias, Lisa; Laakso, Mikael

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2102.04789

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“…Crossref data is based on an openly available Crossref database snapshot (Crossref, 2021) that contains all Crossref records registered until 7th January 2021. Relevant metadata fields were parsed applying the rcrossref parsers (Chamberlain et al, 2020), following the same approach documented in Jahn et al (2021).…”

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No Deal: Investigating the Influence of Restricted Access to Elsevier Journals on German Researchers' Publishing and Citing Behaviours

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In 2014, a union of German research organisations established Projekt DEAL, a national-level project to negotiate licensing agreements with large scientific publishers. Negotiations between DEAL and Elsevier began in 2016, and broke down without a successful agreement in 2018; in this time, around 200 German research institutions cancelled their license agreements with Elsevier, leading Elsevier to restrict journal access at those institutions from July 2018 onwards. We investigated the effect of these access restrictions on researchers' publishing and citing behaviours from a bibliometric perspective, using a dataset of ~410,000 articles published by researchers at the affected DEAL institutions between 2012-2020. We further investigated these effects with respect to the timing of contract cancellations with Elsevier, research disciplines, collaboration patterns, and article open-access status. We find evidence for a decrease in Elsevier's market share of articles from DEAL institutions, from a peak of 25.3% in 2015 to 20.6% in 2020, with the largest year-on-year market share decreases occurring in 2019 (-1.1%) and 2020 (-1.6%) following the implementation of access restrictions. We also observe year-on-year decreases in the proportion of citations made from articles published by authors at DEAL institutions to articles in Elsevier journals post-2018, although the decrease is smaller (-0.4% in 2019 and -0.6% in 2020) than changes in publishing volume. We conclude that Elsevier access restrictions have led to some reduced willingness of researchers at DEAL institutions to publish their research in Elsevier journals, but that researchers are not strongly affected in their ability to cite Elsevier articles, with the implication that researchers use a variety of other methods (e.g. interlibrary loans, sharing between colleagues, or "shadow libraries") to access scientific literature.

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Section: Deal Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Program after an embargo period. Future studies could make use of journal lists from related agreements between national consortia and Elsevier, as well as publisher-provided invoicing data (Jahn et al, 2021), for an in-depth analysis of OA publication activities and potential funding sources.…”

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confidence: 99%