Evaluating Institutional Commitments to Open Scholarly Infrastructure: A Review of Open Access Collection Development Policies

Data prepared for the publication "Evaluating Institutional Commitments to Open Scholarly Infrastructure: A Review of Open Access Collection Development Policies."

oa-cd-policies.csv

Scope: This data represents collection development policies that contain substantial mention of open access.

Data collection: The policies were sourced using an Advanced Google Search for "open access" AND "collection development policy" at ".edu" domains.

Variables:

institution: Free text, name of the institution.

carnegie_class: One of these options; the Carnegie classification of the institution.

institution_type: One of public or private; the funding source of the institution.

policy_name: Free text; the title of the policy.

supplemental_policy: Link to a supplemental open access policy if linked in the collection development policy.

cd_policy_link: Link to the policy.

infrastructure: TRUE or FALSE; whether the policy includes a commitment to open access scholarly infrastructure development, including open source platforms, locally hosted platforms, consortia, or an institutional repository.

excerpt: Free text; text from the policy that mentions infrastructure.

principles-policies.csv

Scope: This data represents those collection development policies from oa-cd-policies.csv that contain commitments in line with the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure.

Variables:

institution: Free text, name of the institution.

carnegie_class: One of these options; the Carnegie classification of the institution.

institution_type: One of public or private; the funding source of the institution.

policy_name: Free text; the title of the policy.

supplemental_policy: Link to a supplemental open access policy if linked in the collection development policy.

cd_policy_link: Link to the policy.

principle: One of the three main Principles.

sub_principle: One of the Sub-Principles.

excerpt: Free text; text from the policy that illustrates the sub_principle.