Open Access uptake by universities worldwide

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 08 Jul 2020Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2020 Netherlands, United States, Netherlands English Publisher:PeerJJournal:PeerJ, volume 8, page e9410 (eissn: 2167-8359,

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Authors: Robinson-Garcia, N.; Costas, R.; Leeuwen, T.N. van;

doi: 10.7717/peerj.9410 , 10.48550/arxiv.2003.12273 , 10.5281/zenodo.3874959 , 10.5281/zenodo.3713421

pmid: 32714658

pmc: PMC7353915

arXiv: 2003.12273

handle: 1887/3283701

Open Access uptake by universities worldwide

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Abstract

The implementation of policies promoting the adoption of an open science (OS) culture must be accompanied by indicators that allow monitoring the uptake of such policies and their potential effects on research publishing and sharing practices. This study presents indicators of open access (OA) at the institutional level for universities worldwide. By combining data from Web of Science, Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking disambiguation of institutions, we track OA coverage of universities’ output for 963 institutions. This paper presents the methodological challenges, conceptual discrepancies and limitations and discusses further steps needed to move forward the discussion on fostering OA and OS practices and policies.

Countries

Netherlands, United States, Netherlands

Related Organizations

Stellenbosch Univerisy
South Africa
Leiden University
Netherlands
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Netherlands
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Institute of Applied Mathematics
Russian Federation

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Keywords

open access, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Scholarly Publishing, 020, Universities, Research policy, QH301-705.5, Science Policy, Scientometrics, R, Computer Science - Digital Libraries, Intellectual Property Law, Open access, Scholarly Communication, Science of science, Medicine, Digital Libraries (cs.DL), Open science, Biology (General), bibliometrics, Library and Information Science, Research assessment, Unpaywall, universities

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	selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	66
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	impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.	Top 1%