Institutional output R code

[Friedman, Jason]

Hi All,

 

This is a very intimidating email to write to a community that includes professional data scientists whose stock and trade is R with extensive experience. But in the spirit of giving back to the community, I thought I would share the non-expert R code I’ve written to query OpenAlex for institutional outputs related to Read & Publish agreements: https://github.com/jjfriedman/TA-Research.

 

As you can see, it’s heavily dependent on the wonderful people who manage openalexr who I can’t thank enough for their fantastic contribution to our community.

 

I am sharing this code here, in the hopes that it may help someone else in a similar bind, who is trying to look at how Read & Publish agreements may be affecting institutional outputs, but who finds the raw output of OpenAlex challenging to work with.

 

I’m very happy for any feedback (positive and negative) that anyone has.

 

Warm regards,

 

Jason

 

Jason Friedman, BA, MA, MIS
he/him

Assistant Dean, Collections and Discovery

 

University of Saskatchewan

University Library

Ph: (306) 966-8114

 

I acknowledge that I live and work on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respect to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another.

 

[Jonge, H. de [Hans]]

Dear Jason

Thanks for sharing this code! Very interesting project! I am not an R coder myself but very much interested in using open metadata to study “Read and publish” deals. Earlier this year we used a combination of OpenAlex - especially the new corresponding institution field - and the Coalition S Journal Checker Tool API to study the effect of Transformative Agreements on the output funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO: https://doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.24

Maybe our approach is helpful for your project. 

Warm regards,

Hans de Jonge 

Dutch Research Council NWO

Sent from my📱 device – please excuse brevity and possible typo’s 🙈

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