Open Access Levels of Dutch University Articles and Reviews, 2016-2017

14 Dutch universities' open access output for 2016 and 2017, categorized into pure gold, hybrid, bronze, and green access types. The data was collected from Web of Science and processed through Unpaywall to include author-submitted versions from institutional repositories. Bianca Kramer from Utrecht University compiled this dataset in May 2018.

Use Cases

• Compare open access adoption rates across Dutch universities based on the described categories.
• Analyze trends in green open access, including author-submitted versions, between 2016 and 2017.
• Study the breakdown of gold open access into pure gold, hybrid, and bronze categories as defined in the description.
• Benchmark institutional open access performance using the provided summarized data and charts.

Strengths

• Covers 14 universities over two years (2016-2017).
• Includes author-submitted versions in green OA classification, improving completeness.
• Provides raw data (DOIs, API output), summarized data, and visualizations.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Web of Science and Unpaywall data.

Collection Method

DOIs extracted from Web of Science were processed via Unpaywall's batch query tool, with OA classification performed in Excel.

Time Range

2016-2017

Geography

Netherlands