The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Among the open software they make available, we can highlight:

- Clinical Classification System (CCS) for ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM.

- Chronic Condition Indicator (CCI).

- Elixhauser Comorbidity Software.

This open software tools can be used for the management of clinical-administrative databases with research purposes.

This is a RoMEO green journal. A paid open access option is available for this journal.

- Author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)

- Author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)

- Author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF

What tools and platforms do we already have? Do we miss anything?

Predatory publishing generally refers to the systematic for-profit publication of purportedly scholarly content (in journals and articles, monographs, books, or conference proceedings) in a deceptive or fraudulent way and without any regard for quality assurance. (Definition taken from COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics)

Further information

• Beall's List is a resource that helps you find out whether an OA journal that you plan to publish with is considered questionable or predatory: https://beallslist.net/
  

• More detailed information about the practice of predatory publishing and why it harms the reputation of scientists and Open Access Journals can be found in this discussion paper compiled by COPE: https://publicationethics.org/files/cope_dd_a4_pred_publishing_nov19_screenaw.pdf
  

HALis an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields. It has a good position in the international web repository ranking

https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/science-communication/journal200892

Data in an open format that can be freely used, re-used and shared by anyone for any purpose