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Open Access Metadata Compliance Checker

Automatically check metadata compliance for funded open access articles.

Check your own DOIs Look at an example

Why Metadata Compliance Matters

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

General metadata recommendations:

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