Open Access Metadata Compliance Checker

Automatically check metadata compliance for funded open access articles.

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Why Metadata Compliance Matters

Open access grants and transformation contracts with publishers increasingly require licensing metadata.

General metadata recommendations:

• ESAC Guidelines for Transformative Agreements
• Crossref: Recommended journal metadata
• METADATA 2020: Negotiate metadata in contracts

Supporting Libraries and OA Funders

The compliance checker helps libraries and funders of open access publications streamline their metadata monitoring.

• Become Metadata Compliant

  Independently verify that your publications are compliant with the metadata requirements of library consortia and funding agencies.
• Identify Areas of Improvement

  Identify nonconforming metadata and target the publishers and publications to best improve your compliance.

• Receive Emailed Reports

  Get high-quality reports parametrised for your institution and funded publications by email.
• Dig Down into your Data

  Use generated spreadsheets with your own tools and analyses.

• Get Answers

  Rely on the community of users and experts to interpret results and troubleshoot concompliant or missing metadata.
  FAQs are coming soon.
• Use Open Source for Open Access

  Co-create value for the community by using a compliance tool powered by open source software and based on open data.
  Contributions are welcome.

Technical Implementation

The Open Access Metadata Compliance Checker is powered by metacheck, an R package.

The package includes:

• compliance checks
• a parametrised rmarkdown compliance report
• a webapp to send e-mail reports