Open Access uptake by universities worldwide

Title

Open Access uptake by universities worldwide

 Author

Robinson Garcia, N. (TU Delft Applied Probability) ORCID 0000-0002-0585-7359
Costas, Rodrigo (Universiteit Leiden; Stellenbosch University)
van Leeuwen, Thed N. (Universiteit Leiden)

Date

2020

 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.


 Subject

Open access
Open science
Research assessment
Research policy
Science of science
Scientometrics
Universities
Unpaywall

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9410

 ISSN

2167-8359

 Source

PeerJ, 2020 (7)

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2020 N. Robinson Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Thed N. van Leeuwen
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