Data Policies in Open Access Journals: Not all that glitters is "gold" | EDaWaX

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-10-16

Summary:

At the end of September, I was in beautifull Vienna for some days and presented a few results of our project at the 6th Open Access Days in a session about “Making Research Data publicly available: opportunities and challenges“. It’s been a very nice conference – and some blogposts [Uli Herb -> telepolis (in German) | Astrid Recker -> admtic (in English)] report on the conference and some of the presentations. My colleques Olaf Siegert, Ralf Flohr and I also wrote a summary of the conference for ZfBB (in German) that will be published in the next issue of the journal. Well, to come back to my talk:  In this post I want to point out some single aspects of my presentation: the availability of data policies in economic scholarly journals that are published open access. Our project compared the number and quality of data policies we found in a sample of 43 open access Journals to a sample of 141 traditional subscription journals in regard to the implementation of data availability policies. Generally speaking I wondered how open access journals acquit themselves in this context. Prior to starting our analysis I was quite sure that the percentage of journals equipped with a data availability policy would be higher in open access journals than the proportion of subscription journals equipped with such a policy. I even thought that open access journals could have a comparative advantage to traditional subscription journals: Some of these potential advantages are listed below ...  Based on these assumptions we analysed 43 economic Journals that are listed in the DOAJ (rubric: Economics). We used a sample of OA-journals that primarily publish articles in English. As we did it with the 141 journals in our sample for work package 2, we checked the journal website(s) for data (availability) policies: If we found a data policy we used some criteria to gauge the quality of these data policies.  Well, the sad result is that only two (!) open access journals in our sample are equipped with a data policy (4,65%). In sharp contrast to these findings we were able to find 28 journals in a sample of 140 subscription journals (20%) ... So in my opinion the publishers of the OA-journals have missed their chance to establish in the market for reproducible research up to now. Maybe the editors of open acces journals should think about these results and try to estabilsh themselves in the market for reproductible research."

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http://www.edawax.de/2012/10/data-policies-in-open-access-journals-not-all-that-glitters-is-gold/

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Date tagged:

10/16/2012, 08:41

Date published:

10/16/2012, 04:41