Unpaywall Journals needed data on whether a given journal is associated with an academic society, to help inform librarians in their subscription decisions. Alas there was no open source of this information.

There is now! Thanks to 60+ contributors over the last week, all Elsevier and Wiley journals have now been annotated with whether or not they are a society journal. Many also have the society name itself listed in the notes.

We are releasing this dataset CC0 in its Google Spreadsheet now, and will clean it up and host it in a stand-alone API endpoint in the coming weeks. It has already been pulled into Wikidata! Others are welcome and encouraged to use it however they’d like 🙂

Thanks so much to all of these contributors, some of whom annotated hundreds of journals:

• Lauren Maggio
• Eamon Costello
• Hugo Gruson
• Heather K Moberly
• Sofie Wennström
• josmel pacheco-mendoza
• Kate O’Neill
• Stefanie Haustein
• Lisa Matthias
• Kathryn Pelland
• Camilla Lindelöw
• Amanda Whitmire
• Iara Vidal
• Raquel Donahue
• Sam Teplitzky
• Steffi Grimm
• Marianne Gauffriau
• Anonymous Dinosaur Librarian (> 60 and still bringing it!)
• Maximilian Heimstädt
• Kendra K. Levine
• Ranti Junus
• Nicki Clarkson
• KT Vaughan
• Sarah Severson
• Christie Hurrell
• Philipp Zumstein
• Lucy Carr Jones
• Emma U.
• Chris Rusbridge
• Diana Wright
• Biljana Kosanovic
• Milica Sevkusic
• Patricia Brennan
• Emilio M Bruna
• Bevan S Weir
• Irene Barbers
• Oskia Agirre
• Sarah R. O. Santos
• Olivier Pourret
• Phil Gooch
• Frédérique Bordignon
• Jackie Proven
• Tobias Steiner
• Eleanor Colla
• Aidy Weeks
• George Matsumoto
• Egon Willighagen
• Rob Hooft
• Iseult Lynch
• Andrew Gray
• Heather Lang
• Ethan White
• Sarah Steele Cabrera
• Didier Torny
• Bruce Caron
• Eleta Exline
• Teresa Schultz
• Christy Caldwell
• Richard Abdill
• Anthony Hamzah
• Marc Couture

This was a great community push, and it is all of ours, and we’re sure thankful.