Using data from 2024, this report is the seventh 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 and monograph 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/v3bn-sq70.

Key findings from this report include:

● 74% of articles published in 2024 by CU Boulder authors are available via some type of OA (Gold, Green, Hybrid, or Bronze) (nearly the same as 75% in 2023);

● In 2024, the CU Boulder Libraries OA Fund funded author fees totaling $120,193 for 66 journal articles published by CU Boulder authors in full OA journals (up from $86,928 for 47 journal articles in 2023);

● The estimated total cost of APCs for all 2024 OA articles with a CU Boulder author is nearly $6.9 million (up from nearly $6.6 million in 2023);

● For the first time this year, this report provides data on the 11 open monographs funded through the CU Boulder Open Monograph Fund since 2021, which will be updated annually going forward;

● At the end of 2024, there were 19,817 OA items in the CU Scholar institutional repository (up from 17,448 in 2023), and these items were downloaded a total of 35,923 times in 2024;

● In the annual Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA), faculty reported 75 published data sets in 2024 (down slightly from 83 in 2023) with 89.33% of these citations including Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) (up slightly from 87.95% in 2023) and 96.00% of these citations identifying a formal data repository (nearly the same as 95.20% in 2023);

● The Libraries and its partners registered 544 DataCite DOIs for published data sets in 2024 (up significantly from 309 in 2023);