{% hint style="danger" %} This data schema is in beta and can change with little notice. {% endhint %}
OA.Report collects data on scholarly works such as papers, preprints, datasets, and code. Some of that data is generated by OA.Works and some are reused from other open sources.
For an example of a record with most of the possible fields, go to https://api.oa.works/report/works/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.122
Boolean: True
if the work can be self-archived in a repository.
Source: ShareYourPaper Permissions
Updated: Daily (premium), occasionally (free)
String: What version of the work can be self-archived in a repository?
can_archive: "acceptedVersion"
Values are based on the DRIVER Guidelines versioning scheme.
Source: ShareYourPaper Permissions
Updated: Daily (premium), occasionally (free)
String: The journal's OA type.
{% hint style="info" %}
Think of this as oa_status
for a journal.
{% endhint %}
Values include:
gold
: The journal's whole output is published Open Access.hybrid
: The journal allows some articles to be published Open Access.transformative
: The journal allows some articles to be published Open Access, and is listed by Coalition S as a transformative journal.diamond
: The journal whole output is published Open Access. with no APCclosed
: The journal's output is entirely behind a paywall, or bronze.not applicable:
Used when the work is not in a journal (typically, a pre-print)
journal_oa_type: "diamond"
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Daily (premium), occasionally (free)
Boolean: true
if PMC reports the article as having a data availability statement.
Source: PMC
Updated: Weekly (premium), occasionally (free)
Boolean: true
if the article has a data availability (or, resource availability) statement.
Source: PMC
Updated: Weekly (premium), occasionally (free)
String: The corresponding author's email address
email: "[email protected]"
{% hint style="info" %} Most emails are encrypted if you're not logged in and viewing emails associated with your organization. {% endhint %}
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
String: The corresponding author's name for use in emails
email: "Dr.Who"
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if crossref data suggests the article is free to read
Source: Crossref
Updated: Weekly (premium), occasionally (free)
String: timestamp of when the record was last updated
updated: "1675693406601"
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium), occasionally (free)
Each of these keys is found in the supplements
object.
{% hint style="info" %} While the name suggests these are secondary, they're in fact, critical to OA.Report. They were given this name as they "supplement" the open data, and have nothing to do with supplemental information you might find in a research article. {% endhint %}
String: The license applied to this work by the publisher as best we can determine.
publisher_license_best: "cc-by"
Source: Unpaywall, CrossRef, and manual collection can be used to support this designation.
Updated: Weekly (premium), occasionally (free)
String: The license applied to this work by the repository as best we can determine.
publisher_license_best: "cc-by"
Source: Data from Unpaywall and Europe PMC can be used to support this designation.
Updated: Weekly (premium), occasionally (free)
Boolean: true
if the article is on a preprint server
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if the article has a version on a preprint server
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
String: The doi of the article's preprint
preprint_doi: "10.21203/rs.3.rs-805463/v1"
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if the work has a data or resource availability statement
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if the article uses data the authors made in the process of research
Source: Dataseer
Updated: As requested (premium)
Boolean: true
if the article shared the data in some location (e.g in the supplements, the article itself, a data repository, their website)
Source: Dataseer
Updated: As requested (premium)
Boolean: true
if the authors shared their data and licensed it cc-by or cc-0.
Source: OA.Works.
Updated: As requested (premium)
Boolean: true
if the work relies on data not created by the authors
Source: Dataseer
Updated: As requested (premium)
Boolean: true
if the article uses code the authors made in the process of research
Source: Dataseer
Updated: As requested (premium)
Boolean: true
if the article shared the code in some location (e.g in the supplements, the article itself, a data repository, their website)
Source: Dataseer
Updated: As requested (premium)
Boolean: true
if the authors shared their data and licensed it under a permissive open source licence (e.g MIT)
Source: OA.Works.
Updated: As requested (premium)
String: DOI(s) found associated with the work (could be for a dataset, codebase, or something else)
Source: OA.Works.
Updated: As requested (premium)
String: licence found associated to supporting resources (could be for a dataset, codebase, or something else)
Source: OA.Works.
Updated: As requested (premium)
String: location(s) of supporting resource(s)
Source: OA.Works.
Updated: As requested (premium)
String: URL(s) found associated with the work (could be for a dataset, codebase, or something else)
Source: OA.Works.
Updated: As requested (premium)
String: the APC cost in USD
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
String: Date an APC invoice was issued
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
String: Year an APC invoice was issued
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
String: The invoice number provided on the invoice
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
These keys also start with supplements.
However, they also end with an organization's name or acronym to provide organization-specific data. For instance: supplements.grantid__bmgf
.
String: The grant ID(s) associated with the work
Source: OA.Works, Crossref
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if the work is compliant with the organization's Open Access policy
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if the work is covered under the organization's Open Access policy
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if the work has been added since the last time we sent the user a report
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
String: the grant program the work was supported by
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if this work is deposited in an approved repository under the Open Access policy
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if this work's funding statement is actually a financial disclosure
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Boolean: true
if this work should be removed from an organization's results for any reason
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
String: full-text of funding statement
Source: OA.Works
Updated: Weekly (premium)
Open sources do a fantastic job of providing a lot of the core metadata used by OA.Report.
See Crossref's documentation for the following keys:
funder
name
award
DOI
subject
{% hint style="info" %} Note: Crossref is not our only source of funding data. However, it is the best source of open, structured data. {% endhint %}
See OpenAlex's documentation for the following keys:
doi
title
subtitle
journal
publisher
issn
volume
issue
PMCID
is_retracted
is_paratext
is_oa
published_date
published_year
type
authorships
author
id
display_name
orcid
author_position
institutions
id
display_name
ror
raw_affiliation_string
concepts
display_name
id
level
score
{% hint style="info" %} We use equivalent Crossref data where OpenAlex data isn't yet available to provide up-to-date results. In some cases, such as `PMCID` we use other sources to provide more complete coverage. {% endhint %}
See Unpaywall's documentation for the following keys:
oadoi_is_oa
(see`is_oa`
)oa_status
has_repository_copy
has_oa_locations_embargoed
In the below host_type
is prepended to a key as a helpful simplification over Unpaywall's oa_locations
data:
publisher_version
publisher_license
publisher_url_for_pdf
repository_version
repository_license
repository_url
repository_url_for_pdf
repository_url_in_pmc
best_oa_location_url
best_oa_location_url_for_pdf