Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment
Open 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 p...
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| author | Huang, Karl Neylon, Cameron Hosking, Richard Montgomery, Lucy Wilson, Katie Ozaygen, Alkim Brookes-Kenworthy, Chloe |
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| description | Open 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. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-850872021-09-16T03:41:03Z Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment Huang, Karl Neylon, Cameron Hosking, Richard Montgomery, Lucy Wilson, Katie Ozaygen, Alkim Brookes-Kenworthy, Chloe Open 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. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85087 10.7554/eLife.57067 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Huang, Karl Neylon, Cameron Hosking, Richard Montgomery, Lucy Wilson, Katie Ozaygen, Alkim Brookes-Kenworthy, Chloe Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment |
| title | Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment |
| title_full | Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment |
| title_short | Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment |
| title_sort | evaluating institutional open access performance: methodology, challenges and assessment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85087 |