Open Access-related Infrastructures and Services at German Universities (OARIS)

The dataset ‘Open Access-related Infrastructures and Services at German Universities (OARIS) was compiled in the context of the BMBF-funded project ‘OAUNI - Entwicklung und Einflussfaktoren des Open-Access-Publizierens an Universitäten in Deutschland‘. The aim of the project is to analyze the uptake of Open Access (OA) at German universities and to identify the most important determinants.1 As suggested by its name, the dataset is restricted to German universities and collects information about OA-Infrastructures and services at these institutions. As the dataset is a result of a project but not an OA information resource, it is not intended to update the data.
OARIS includes structural data about German universities as well as data about institutional repositories, institutional OA policies, publications funds, university presses, and journals hosted by Open Journal Systems (OJS). The data collection and data cleaning took place between May 2020 and May 2021. Table 1 provides more detailed information about the sources of data used for OARIS.