Clarivate is Introducing New Open Access Data into Web of Science Journal Citation Reports, Feature Will Be in Beta Until Release of 2020 Journal Citation Reports in June
From a Clarivate Announcement:
Clarivate Analytics today announced the addition of open access data to Journal Citation Reports profile pages to increase transparency around open access models in scholarly publishing.
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For the approximately 5,200 hybrid journals in Journal Citation Reports, readers will now quickly and easily be able to identify:
- the number of papers published via the traditional subscription model, and
- those published via Creative Commons licenses.
Read the Complete Launch Announcement
More from a Clarivate Blog Post by Dr. Nandita Quader
The new descriptive feature uses Our Research (formerly ImpactStory) data to identify content published under a Creative Commons license (gold OA) and allows it to be easily differentiated from subscription or free to read content (which may not be free to re-use.) This provides funders, publishers, librarians, and researchers with transparent, publisher-neutral information about the relative contribution of gold OA articles to a journal’s overall volume of content and citations. The feature is in beta until the release of the 2020 Journal Citation Reports in June.
The new descriptive feature uses Our Research (formerly ImpactStory) data to identify content published under a Creative Commons license (gold OA) and allows it to be easily differentiated from subscription or free to read content (which may not be free to re-use.) This provides funders, publishers, librarians, and researchers with transparent, publisher-neutral information about the relative contribution of gold OA articles to a journal’s overall volume of content and citations. The feature is in beta until the release of the 2020 Journal Citation Reports in June.
Introducing this additional data into JCR will help us all understand the impact of scholarly content published via gold OA, and publishers and funders will be able to make better informed, more confident decisions on open access policy and strategy, furthering their objectives of increasing transparency around open access to academic research.
Read the Complete Blog Post
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