scholarly journals Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Kai Huang ◽  
Cameron Neylon ◽  
Richard Hosking ◽  
Lucy Montgomery ◽  
Katie Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Latin American ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Reporting Standard ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Gold Open Access

AbstractOpen Access to research outputs is becoming rapidly more important to the global research community and society. Changes are driven by funder mandates, institutional policy, grass-roots advocacy and culture change. It has been challenging to provide a robust, transparent and updateable analysis of progress towards open access that can inform these interventions, particularly at the institutional level. Here we propose a minimum reporting standard and present a large-scale analysis of open access progress across 1,207 institutions world-wide that shows substantial progress being made. The analysis detects responses that coincide with policy and funding interventions. Among the striking results are the high performance of Latin American and African universities, particularly for gold open access, whereas overall open access levels in Europe and North America are driven by repository-mediated access. We present a top-100 of global universities with the world’s leading institutions achieving around 80% open access for 2017 publications.

scholarly journals Evidence of Open Access of scientific publications in Google Scholar: a large-scale analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Martín-Martín ◽  
Rodrigo Costas ◽  
Thed van Leeuwen ◽  
Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
Citation Indexes ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The Web

This article uses Google Scholar (GS) as a source of data to analyse Open Access (OA) levels across all countries and fields of research. All articles and reviews with a DOI and published in 2009 or 2014 and covered by the three main citation indexes in the Web of Science (2,269,022 documents) were selected for study. The links to freely available versions of these documents displayed in GS were collected. To differentiate between more reliable (sustainable and legal) forms of access and less reliable ones, the data extracted from GS was combined with information available in DOAJ, CrossRef, OpenDOAR, and ROAR. This allowed us to distinguish the percentage of documents in our sample that are made OA by the publisher (23.1%, including Gold, Hybrid, Delayed, and Bronze OA) from those available as Green OA (17.6%), and those available from other sources (40.6%, mainly due to ResearchGate). The data shows an overall free availability of 54.6%, with important differences at the country and subject category levels. The data extracted from GS yielded very similar results to those found by other studies that analysed similar samples of documents, but employed different methods to find evidence of OA, thus suggesting a relative consistency among methods.

scholarly journals Evaluating the impact of open access policies on research institutions

eLife ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang ◽  
Cameron Neylon ◽  
Richard Hosking ◽  
Lucy Montgomery ◽  
Katie S Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Access Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gold Open Access

The proportion of research outputs published in open access journals or made available on other freely-accessible platforms has increased over the past two decades, driven largely by funder mandates, institutional policies, grass-roots advocacy, and changing attitudes in the research community. However, the relative effectiveness of these different interventions has remained largely unexplored. Here we present a robust, transparent and updateable method for analysing how these interventions affect the open access performance of individual institutes. We studied 1,207 institutions from across the world, and found that, in 2017, the top-performing universities published around 80–90% of their research open access. The analysis also showed that publisher-mediated (gold) open access was popular in Latin American and African universities, whereas the growth of open access in Europe and North America has mostly been driven by repositories.

scholarly journals Evidence of open access of scientific publications in Google Scholar: A large-scale analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Martín-Martín ◽  
Rodrigo Costas ◽  
Thed van Leeuwen ◽  
Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Large Scale Analysis
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