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N. Jahn, M. Tullney. A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany. PeerJ, 4, e2323.https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2323

This article is written in R Markdown. This repository contains the datasets used as well as all data gathering methods and analytical steps involved. Also bibliography and latex styles are shared.

Before generating the paper, make sure you have all R packages installed.

Generate the paper

To replicate the analytical steps including tables and figures, execute the article file via the command line interface:

Rscript -e "rmarkdown::render('article.Rmd')"

Data collection methods used

Open APC data-set

The script R/aggregation.r contains the source code used for enriching the original Open APC data.

The helper function R/cr_parse was used to parse the Crossref XML obtained with the great rcrossref client.

Other cost data-sets

data/cost_data_uk/README.md tracks how we gathered the values for Table 2. Again, this notebook is written in R Markdown (data/cost_data_uk/README.Rmd)

How to cite?

Please cite our paper in case you would like to refer to this work

@article{10.7717/peerj.2323,
 title = {A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany},
 author = {Jahn, Najko and Tullney, Marco},
 year = 2016,
 month = aug,
 keywords = {Open access, Open access journal, Article processing charges, Science policy, Scholarly publishing, Publication fees},
 volume = 4,
 pages = {e2323},
 journal = {PeerJ},
 issn = {2167-8359},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2323},
 doi = {10.7717/peerj.2323}
}

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