Open Access uptake by universities worldwide.
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SUBMITTER: Robinson-Garcia N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7353915 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Open Access uptake by universities worldwide.
Robinson-Garcia Nicolas N Costas Rodrigo R van Leeuwen Thed N TN
PeerJ 20200708
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 f ...[more]
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