Paula Schirrmacher (Research Intelligence Analyst) introduces a new dashboard which visualises the University’s open access publication practices.
To monitor our progress in open access practices, the Open Research team combined internally collected data on open access routes and publicly available data on open access formats for University of York publications in this interactive dashboard. Cycle through the years and discover how open access publication formats at the University of York develop over time and explore the evolving role of our transformative publishing agreements (TA) and the York Open Access Fund (YOAF)!
We maintain a growing array of transformative publishing agreements that allow our researchers (corresponding authors) to publish open access in gold and hybrid gold journals without additional charge. Alternatively, any author affiliated with the University of York can apply to the York Open Access Fund to make their publication open access. Whilst the above promote gold and hybrid gold open access formats, we have recently also launched a new research publications and Open Access policy, enabling researchers to reuse and share their work in any journal without giving up rights to their scholarship.
Different formats (green, hybrid gold, gold) come with their distinct advantages and disadvantages. Green open access formats allow authors to self-archive their articles and are usually free of charge. Gold and hybrid gold make articles permanently and freely available on the publishers website for anyone and anywhere, but usually involve a fee. Our open access and publishing your research web pages provide further guidance and we will soon be launching a new Practical Guide to help consolidate and clarify publishing processes for researchers.
Of course, we practise what we preach and made all code and data for our dashboard available in this GitHub repository.