Open Access surpasses subscription publication globally for the first time | Dimensions

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-02-24

Summary:

"In the vein of keeping things moving, the Dimensions team has introduced many new features over the last few years. Most recently, they have updated the Open Access classifications in Dimensions and introduced some additional fields that some of you may find helpful.

The Open Access data in Dimensions is sourced from our colleagues at Unpaywall.  When we first launched Dimensions, Unpaywall was almost as new as we were, but in the meanwhile, both Unpaywall and Dimensions have moved on. The new release of Dimensions now tracks the Unpaywall OA classifications.  This means that the filters in Dimensions should be more consistent and easier to understand – we now have: Green, Bronze, Gold, Hybrid, All OA and Closed.  Of course, all the Open Access filters are available in the free version of Dimensions as well.

While we have seen the percentage of OA increasing rapidly in recent years, especially in countries like China, Germany and the UK, it was not until 2020 that more outputs were published through Open Access channels than traditional subscription channels globally...."

Link:

https://www.dimensions.ai/blog/open-access-surpasses-subscription-publication-globally-for-the-first-time/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » infodocketGARY's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.dimensions oa.statistics oa.subscriptions oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.growth oa.gold oa.hybrid oa.unpaywall oa.preprints oa.versions oa.journals oa.analytics oa.milestones

Date tagged:

02/24/2021, 14:16

Date published:

02/24/2021, 04:13