Co-developed and led by Andrea Wallace and me [Douglas McCarthy] since March 2018, the Open GLAM survey records instances of open access policy and practice in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sector. Today, the survey lists 1,424 institutions that have published open access data, from Aruba to Venezuela.
Housed in a public Google Sheet, the survey has grown in scale and complexity over the past four years. In advance of the survey’s fourth anniversary, Andrea and I have restructured, checked and cleaned the data. This post presents an overview of that work, highlights new data points that we hope to enrich, and includes updated visualisations generated from the whole survey.
Instances of open access, December 2021. Source: Wikidata SPARQL query https://w.wiki/Grc Source: OpenGlam on Medium
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
