Links from Wikipedia to UK Open Access Repositories, 2019 Snapshot

A 2019 snapshot of links from Wikipedia to UK institutional and subject-specific open access and data repositories. The dataset was compiled by NE Sheppard at the University of Leeds and is complete for Russell Group universities, with other repositories partially crowdsourced. It includes repositories like figshare, Zenodo, and DataDryad.

Use Cases

• Map the network of institutional repositories linked from Wikipedia based on the described link data.
• Analyze the coverage of UK higher education institutions in open access platforms based on the described completeness for the Russell Group.
• Study the adoption of general-purpose data repositories like figshare and Zenodo within the UK research community based on their inclusion.

Strengths

• Snapshot date of August 12, 2019 provides a specific temporal reference.
• Explicitly covers over 150 UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
• Includes both institutional and non-institutional subject-specific repositories.

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

Wikipedia and UK repositories, compiled by NE Sheppard, University of Leeds.

Collection Method

Links gathered via Wikipedia's 'insource' parameter search; partial crowdsourcing via the UKCoRR mailing list.

Time Range

Snapshot from August 12, 2019.

Geography

United Kingdom.