Gold OA Status on Journal Level: an Evaluation of Sources [NWB'2016 poster]

Since Open Access (OA) has become a major issue in the development of the scientific communication system, a growing number of bibliometric studies are carried out with regard to this topic. Many of these studies refer to a set of Gold OA journals. According to Éric Archambault et al. (2014, following Peter Suber 2012) a Gold OA Journal is a journal offering immediate cover-tocover open access, provided by a publisher, sometimes with paid for publication fee. A most popular source for determining the Gold OA status of journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). In fact the majority of bibliometric studies deal-ing with Gold OA journals up to now rely solely on DOAJ as a source. Likewise, the OA-flag in Web of Science is exclusively linked to DOAJ. However, blind spots and problems with data quality in DOAJ show up, when compared to other sources. Within the project Transparent Infrastructure for Article Charges (INTACT) we therefore studied a number of different sources for determining the Gold OA status of journals. The analysis provides an overview of existence and quality of publicly available sources and suggests a choice suitable for bibli-ometric studies concerning the Gold OA journal set. Our results of course will be made OA.