Open access practices of selected library science journals

The data in this set was gathered to analyze the open access practices of
library journals. The data was culled from the Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ), the Proquest database Library and Information Science
Abstracts (LISA), and a sample of peer reviewed scholarly journals in the
field of Library Science. Starting with a batch of 377 journals, the
researchers focused their dataset to include journals that met the
following criteria: 1) peer-reviewed 2) written in English or abstracted
in English, 3) actively published at the time of analysis, and 4) scoped
to librarianship. The dataset presents an overview of the landscape of
open access scholarly publishing in the LIS field during a very specific
time period, spring and summer of 2023.