This data set contains five data files that were used to produce the "2025 State of Open at the University of Colorado Boulder" report:

1. CUBoulderOAFund2013_2024.csv contains data from articles funded by the CU Boulder Libraries Open Access Fund from 2013 to 2024. This data was collected by CU Boulder Libraries personnel from successful applications to the Open Access Fund.

2. CUBoulderOpenAlexAPCs_2024.csv contains data on APCs paid for articles with CU Boulder authors published in 2024 from OpenAlex (https://openalex.org/).

3. CUBoulderPublishedData2014_2024.csv contains data from the CU Boulder Faculty Reports of Professional Activities from 2014 to 2024. CU Boulder Libraries personnel coded this data for the variables provided.

4. CUBoulderTotalOAPublishing2015_2024.csv contains data on type of open access article from Unpaywall (https://unpaywall.org/) matched against data on articles authored by CU Boulder faculty from CU Boulder Elements (https://www.colorado.edu/fis/CUBE). CU Boulder Libraries personnel exported the data provided on August 15, 2025.

5. CUScholarContent20241231.csv contains data on all of the items in the CU Scholar institutional repository as of December 31, 2024. This data was exported by CU Boulder Libraries personnel from the CU Scholar (Samvera) software on December 31, 2024.

The full report based on this data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.25810/JR10-XP82