On this community you will find the absolute figures of the Repository Monitor to create your own visualisations. You can also download the underlying raw data, provided these have been made available by the participating institutions.
About the Swiss Open Acess Monitor
The Swiss Open Access Monitor provides basic indicators for the vision of the Swiss National Strategy on Open Access. The Monitor collects and visualises data on scientific publications written by scientific staff affiliated with a swissuniversities member. The Swiss Open Access Monitor was developed within the framework of the National Open Access Monitoring (NOAM) project, led by the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries. The project was half funded by the Open Science programme 2021-2024 and half by the Consortium. A representative task force consisting of members of the Arbeitskreis Open Access (AKOA) expertly advised and accompanied the project.
Major aims of the project:
- Collect data on publications to determine the Open Access share.
- Make Open Access shares visible and data accessible.
- Ensure the future provision of the Swiss Open Access Monitor.
The Swiss Open Access Monitor collects data from two different types of sources:
About the Repository Monitor
The Repository Monitor offers visualisations and publication data from an annual nationwide survey. The participating institutions process the publication data and provide the absolute figures on Open/Closed shares of scientific publications by affiliated authors. Four types of resources are surveyed: journal articles, books, book parts and conference papers. The publication data collected for the Repository Monitor come from institutional OA repositories or other institutional publication reference systems. In form of absolute figures and files, the HEI provide basic or advanced OA data. The Consortium project manager accumulates the provided absolute data in a list which will be made available on oamonitor.ch and form the basis for the chart visualizations of the last four years and takes care that the provided files are accessible.
Data sources
Swiss higher education institutions (HEI) providing data from their institutional reference system(s) (e.g., repositories) are swissuniversities members or close associates (e.g., Research Institutes of the ETH Domain). The specialist entrusted by the HEI is in charge of providing the requested data, e.g., in their capacity as Open Access specialist, repository manager, part of the HEI management or application developer. They have full authority over the data they deliver based on the survey specifications. The survey relies on the expertise of the HEI specialists and gives the necessary room for interpretation. Institutions are requested to provide data on Open Access shares of publications attributed to a selected amount of resource types. The institutions provide snapshot data in form of absolute annual figures and underlying datasets.
Methodology
The Consortium conducts an annual survey which requests repository data from swissuniversities members of the previous four publication years. The collected data needs regular updates to reflect changes in the OA status in form of an annual rolling survey which collects updated data from the previous four years. Data older than four years remain static; data and their visualizations are updated after each survey and made available on oamonitor.ch.
Transparency and reproducibility of the survey fully depend on the institutions’ provision of absolute figures (and underlying datasets) and on the repositories being compliant with metadata standards. Additional independent compliance checks (e.g. using the OpenAIRE Validator) or any other method of cross-checking or data validation are not within the scope of this survey.
The low-threshold manual approach of this survey excludes automated data aggregation/merging/de-duplication solutions, like harvesting OpenAIRE data. Visualizations of the data available on oamonitor.ch are based on the absolute figures aggregated in one list.
Absolute figures: for the interpretation and visualisation of the delivered data on institutional and national level, the project uses the absolute figures as delivered by the institutions. The survey collects absolute figures of Open Access shares: “basic” (“Open”/ “Closed”) or/and if available “advanced” (“Green”/ “Gold”/ “Hybrid”/ “Closed”) per institution, resource type and year. The request form includes the following metadata: Institution name, ROR-ID, Institution type, Period, Resource type, OA type – basic, OA type – advanced, Number of items.
Underlying data: institutions are invited to deliver the underlying metadata on item level they used for identifying the Open Access shares per resource type and year which include the following standard metadata as described in the OpenAire Guidelines for institutional and thematic Repository Managers. Institutions are invited to add metadata fields they deem necessary to identify and allocate the resource types to their OA status and/or differentiate between journal article and professional article (if available).
To keep the workload at a manageable size, the repository survey requests data of content published in the last four full publication year only, not updating publication data on years older than four years. This way, the rolling annual survey covers OA status changes which happened between the previous and the last data snapshot.
For example, this applies to previously embargoed articles which were categorized as closed in the previous survey and are classified as OA (Green) in the following survey when the embargo was lifted.