Mapping the Swiss Landscape of Diamond Open Access Journals. The PLATO Study on Scholar-Led Publishing. Dataset

Context
From March to September 2022, the «Platinum Open Access Funding» Project (PLATO), in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Data Science & Finance at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, undertook a bibliometric and empirical study of the Platinum/Diamond open access journal landscape in Switzerland. The PLATO project is an initiative of six Swiss universities – the University of Zurich, the University of Bern, the University of Geneva, the University of Neuchâtel, the Zurich University of the Arts and ETH Zurich –, dedicated to furthering community-led scholarly publishing in Switzerland. Diamond open access stands for a concept of equitable open access to and participation in scholarly publishing that is free for both authors and readers.

Presentation
The main objective of the PLATO Study was to gain insight into the Platinum/Diamond open access publishing ecosystem in Switzerland through a mixed-method approach. The study consisted of three parts: First, bibliometric data were combined with inputs from Swiss open access publishers, institutional open access experts as well as information on journal websites to identify Swiss Diamond OA journals and their main characteristics. Second, seven semi-structured interviews with editors of select Diamond OA journals were conducted to generate a thorough understanding of their workflows, infrastructures, business models, challenges and opportunities. Third, based on the inputs from the interviews, three surveys were designed and sent to authors/reviewers, editors, and representatives of hosting and funding institutions of Swiss Diamond OA journals.

The results of the study are published in the form of the following outputs:

DOI Report: 10.5281/zenodo.7461728

DOI Bibliometric List: 10.34914/olos:l2tys6tie5f63h35lqpqzzlx24

DOI Data Set: 10.5281/zenodo.7461754

The Data Set comprises the following files:

Survey questionnaires

                   SurveyQuestionnaire_Author.pdf
                   SurveyQuestionnaire_Editor.pdf
                   SurveyQuestionnaire_Publisher.pdf

Data collected in three survey studies addressing journal editors, authors/reviewers as well as representatives of hosting and funding institutions:

                   StudyData_Author.csv
                   StudyData_Editor.csv
                   StudyData_Publisher.csv

Codebooks explaining the coding of the survey data files:

                   StudyCodebook_Author.pdf
                   StudyCodebook_Editor.pdf
                   StudyCodebook_Publisher.pdf