The Accessibility of Published Educational Research

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Abstract

Using a novel public Internet data mining approach, we found that 65.0% of all articles published between 2010 and 2022 in AERA journals are publicly accessible. Analyses for the differences in the versions of articles that were accessible (i.e., the published version with different license types, pre-prints, and others) revealed that most of the accessible files (an estimated 51.9% - 64.0%) were the published version; many were pre-prints (16.1% - 26.1%); and, few had an open access license (3.5% - 9.4%). We discuss the tensions surrounding the present publishing system, but join calls to further expand open access.

Authors

• Joshua M. Rosenberg, University of Tennessee

• George Veletsianos, University of Minnesota

• Enilda J. Romero-Hall, University of Tennessee

• Emilie Allen, University of Tennessee