Monitoring compliance with governmental and institutional open access policies across Spanish universities

Melero, Reme, Melero-Fuentes, David and Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel Monitoring compliance with governmental and institutional open access policies across Spanish universities. El profesional de la información, 2018, vol. 27, n. 4, pp. 858-878. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Universities and research centers in Spain are subject to a national open access (OA) mandate and to their own OA institutional policies, if any, but compliance with these requirements has not been fully monitored yet. We studied the degree of OA archiving of publications of 28 universities within the period 2012-2014. Of these, 12 have an institutional OA mandate,9 do not require but request or encourage OA of scholarly outputs, and 7 do not have a formal OA statement but are well known for their support of the OA movement. The potential OA rate was calculated according to the publisher open access policies indicated in Sherpa/Romeo directory. The universities showed an asymmetric distribution of 1% to 63% of articles archived in repositories that matched those indexed by the Web of Science in the same period, of which 1% to 35% were OA and the rest were closed access. For articles on work carried out with public funding and subject to the Spanish Science law, the percentage was similar or slightly higher. However, the analysis of potential OA showed that the figure could have reached 80% in some cases. This means that the real proportion of articles in OA is far below what it could potentially be.

Spanish abstract

Las universidades y centros de investigación en España están sujetos a un mandato de acceso abierto (OA) nacional, de acuerdo con la Ley de la ciencia en su artículo 37, y con sus propias políticas institucionales de libre acceso, si las hubiese, pero todavía no existe un seguimiento regular del cumplimiento de estos requisitos. En este estudio se analiza el grado de depósito de las publicaciones de 28 universidades en el período 2012-2014. De éstas, 12 tienen un mandato institucional de OA, 9 recomiendan el depósito en OA de los resultados académicos, y 7 no tienen una declaración formal de OA, pero son conocidas por su apoyo a este movimiento. La ratio de OA potencial se calculó de acuerdo con las políticas de autoarchivo de las revistas, extraídas del directorio Sherpa/Romeo. Las universidades mostraron una distribución asimétrica en cuanto al depósito de los artículos, variando entre el 1% al 63%, tomando como referencia los artículos indexados por la Web of Science en el mismo período. De éstos, entre 1% a 35% estaban en OA y el resto en acceso restringido. El porcentaje de artículos depositados que declaraban tener una financiación de fondos estatales y por tanto sujetos a la Ley de la ciencia española,fue similar al obtenido cuando se consideró la producción total de cada una de las instituciones, o ligeramente superior. Sin embargo, el análisis del acceso abierto potencial mostró que la cifra podría haber alcanzado el 80% en algunos casos. Esto significa que la proporción real de artículos en acceso abierto está muy por debajo de lo que potencialmente podría ser.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Open access, Acceso abierto, Compliance, Mandates, Monitoring open access policies, Potential open access, Spain, España
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
Depositing user: Reme Melero
Date deposited: 29 Aug 2018 18:50
Last modified: 31 Aug 2018 06:12
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/33354

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