Using data from 2019, this report is the second annual update to the “State of Open at the University of Colorado Boulder: A Baseline Analysis of Open Access Practices from 2012 to 2018”: ​https://doi.org/10.25810/vprn-v113​. It includes analyses of open access (OA) journal publishing, OA repository usage, and open data practices by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). Data used to produce this report can be found here: ​https://doi.org/10.25810/p5fa-y621​.

Key findings from this report include:

• 9.95% of all articles published in 2019 by CU Boulder authors were published in full OA journals, which is up slightly from 9.63% in 2018;

• In 2019, the CU Boulder Libraries OA Fund funded author fees totalling $100,588.42 for 65 journal articles published by CU Boulder authors in full OA journals (up from $91,041.36 for 57 articles in 2018);

• As of January 2020, there were 11,426 OA items in the CU Scholar institutional repository (up from 10,638 at the time of the previous report), and these items were downloaded a total of 760,400 times in 2019 (up from 625,325 in 2018);

• In the annual Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA), faculty reported 65 published data sets in 2019 (up from 56 in 2018) with 44 of these citations including Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) (up from 34 in 2018) and 56 identifying a formal data repository (reported for the first time in this report);

• The Libraries and its partners registered 197 DataCite DOIs for published data sets in 2019 (up from 112 in 2018).