openaccess

openaccess provides a simple check of open access for scientific papers. The only data required is a DOI. The list of supported journals grows steadily, see below for the current list of verified sources.

Installation

You can install the development version of openaccess from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("turtletopia/openaccess")

How to use

You’d most often check the open access status by passing the DOI.

library(openaccess)
is_open_access("10.1093/nar/gkac882")
#> [1] TRUE

However, if you already have a HTML content, there’s no point in extracting the DOI to download the site again.

site <- rvest::read_html("https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/51/D1/D352/6761729")
is_open_access(site)
#> [1] TRUE

Some sites require prior configuration of Selenium remote driver.

# Settings must match your local setup
start_remote_driver(port = 4567, browserName = "firefox")
#> Starting a new remote driver...
is_open_access("10.1073/pnas.211412398")
#> [1] FALSE

Verified journals

The following journals were validated against the solution and split into two groups: supported and unsupported. Any journal not specified here is not supported either, although with the lack of support coming from not having evaluated the journal yet instead of objective obstacles.

Supported sources

• Academic Press
• ACS Publications
• Analytical Science Journals
• BioMed Central
• Biophysical Journal
• Cambridge Core
• Cell Reports
• eLife
• Elsevier
• FEBS Press
• Frontiers
• Hindawi
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Journal of Neuroscience
• MDPI
• Molecular Cell
• Nature
• OUP Academic
• PeerJ
• Pergamon
• PLOS ONE
• PNAS
• Portland Press
• The Royal Society of Chemistry
• Science
• SpringerLink
• Taylor & Francis
• Wiley Online Library

(Confirmed) unsupported sources

Currently all verified sources are supported.

End notes

I believe in equal rights and treatment for everybody, regardless of their sexuality, gender identity, skin tone, nationality, and other features beyond human control. Thus, I do not allow openaccess to be used in any project that promotes hate based on the aforementioned factors.