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2022 State of Open at the University of Colorado Boulder: An Update on Open Access Practices Based on Data from 2021 Public Deposited

https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/reports/rr171z786
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  • Using data from 2021, this report is the fourth 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) article publishing activities, OA repository usage, and data publishing 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/tt4b-9v88

    Key findings from this report include:

    62% of articles published in 2021 by CU Boulder authors are available via some type of OA (Gold, Green, Hybrid, or Bronze) (up from 60% at the time of the 2020 report);

    In 2021, the CU Boulder Libraries OA Fund funded author fees totaling $89,761 for 53 journal articles published by CU Boulder authors in full OA journals (up from $57,769 for 34 journal articles in 2020);

    At the end of 2021, there were 13,791 OA items in the CU Scholar institutional repository (up from 11,810 in 2020), and these items were downloaded a total of 39,393 times in 2021 (down from 43,236 in 2020);

    In the annual Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA), faculty reported 92 published data sets in 2021 (up from 65 in 2020) with 76 of these citations including Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) (up from 50 in 2020) and 68 citations identifying a formal data repository (up from 54 in 2020);

    The Libraries and its partners registered 416 DataCite DOIs for published data sets in 2021 (up from 320 in 2020).

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  • 2022
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  • 2022-09-29
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  • Caillet, R., Cantrell, M., Johnson, A., & Ranganath, A. (2022). 2022 State of Open at the University of Colorado Boulder: An Update on Open Access Practices Based on Data from 2021. University of Colorado Boulder. https://doi.org/10.25810/1EFE-PZ69
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