Facets of Openness of Research Spectrum of Chemistry in Asia: Data Carpentry-based Study

Openness has revolutionized the information society by loosening the limits on access to rich information. The benefits of openness have been felt more upon the availability of the Web. Open access, open data, open science, open research, etc. have been the talk of the time. Science has been able to move on from the typical “behind the laboratory” and “science only for the privileged” approaches to “open science” and “open research” approaches. It focuses on making different outputs of scientific research available openly. Such transparency has been able to significantly reduce the dominance of closed access science. Open science movement has made huge impact on the progress of modern society. Objectives: The objectives of the research is to study the various facets of openness, like open access status, open access colour and type of license used, of various research outputs in the domain of chemistry, produced from Asia in 2024, and to observe patterns in openness across the type, months and language of publications. Methodology: We have used bibliographic data from Open Alex, to study openness of the research outputs. We have taken a data carpentry-based approach using Open Refine. We have used the Unpaywall API service to study the different facets of openness using the DOIs. Findings: We observe that research in chemistry has mostly “not been open”, The open outputs are mostly under CC BY license, and Gold open access. We alsoobserve that in January, most of the publications have been done.