Research Article (Preprint): “State of Open Access Penetration in Universities Worldwide”
The following research article (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv.
Title
State of Open Access Penetration in Universities Worldwide
Authors
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia
TU Delft
Rodrigo Costas
Leiden University
Stellenbosch University
Thed N. van Leeuwen
Leiden University
Source
via arXiv
Abstract
The implementation of policies promoting the adoption of an Open Science culture must be accompanied by indicators that allow monitoring the penetration of such policies and their potential effects on research publishing and sharing practices. This study presents indicators of Open Access (OA) penetration 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 Open Access and Open Science practices and policies.
Direct to Full Text Article (Preprint)
23 pages; PDF.
Note: Also available via Zenodo
Filed under: Data Files, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
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