Open Access Routes Dichotomy and Opportunities: Consolidation, Analysis and Trends at the Spanish National Research Council

Mercedes Baquero-Arribas, Luis Dorado and Isabel Bernal
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Mercedes Baquero-Arribas: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Unit of Information Resources for Research, C/Joaquin Costa 22, 28002 Madrid, Spain
Luis Dorado: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Unit of Information Resources for Research, C/Joaquin Costa 22, 28002 Madrid, Spain
Isabel Bernal: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Unit of Information Resources for Research, C/Joaquin Costa 22, 28002 Madrid, Spain

Publications, 2019, vol. 7, issue 3, 1-25

Abstract: This article gives a comprehensive overview of recent Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) publications available in Open Access. With a focus on research articles from the last decade (2008–2018), this work aims to fill the gap in previous studies about publishing trends and impact monitoring of publications by researchers from the Spanish National Research Council. Evolution and main trends of Green and Gold Open Access routes at CSIC are addressed through a close insight into DIGITAL.CSIC repository and institutional Open Access Publishing Support Programme. The article draws on major conclusions at a time when an institutional Open Access mandate has just entered into force. The article also relates findings about performance of institutional Open Access Publishing Initiative and total volume of CSIC articles published in Open Access with an estimation of overall costs on article processing charges during these years. Furthermore, the data serve as a basis to make preliminary considerations as to opportunities to move from a subscription-based model to one fully aligned with Gold Open Access publishing. The data analyzed come from a variety of sources, including public information and internal records maintained by the CSIC E-resources Subscription programme, DIGITAL.CSIC and data retrieved from GesBIB, an internal, in-house development tool that integrates bibliographic information about CSIC publications as well as data from several external APIs, including Unpaywall, DOAJ and Sherpa Romeo.

Keywords: Open Access; Open Access publishing fund; APCs monitoring; scholarly publishing; Digital.Csic; transparency of costs; transformative agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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