Datatypes

Open access status

ID oa_status

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Open access status of a scholarly work in the vocabulary of Unpaywall and OpenAlex: gold (published open in an open access journal), diamond (gold without author fees), green (a free copy in a repository), hybrid (open under a license in a subscription journal), bronze (free to read on the publisher site without a license) or closed.

Parent datatype

Category category

Categories

Scientific, Publishing and print

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Quality

85/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation

Metacrafter rules

1 rule (1 by field name, 0 by value)

• oastatusbyfield field, common/science.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter

Regular expression

^(?:gold|diamond|green|hybrid|bronze|closed)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Sources

• doc: https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/works/work-object
• doc: https://unpaywall.org/data-format

Use this record

• Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/oa_status
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/science/oa_status.yaml on GitHub