Open Access Dashboard Collection Launched

"As Open Access becomes increasingly central to scholarship and science policy, understanding the proportion of open publications within the overall publication output, whether at the level of research-performing organizations, individual countries, or globally, is gaining importance.

In recent years, an increasing number of dashboards have been created to track different facets of Open Access. Yet, a comprehensive overview of these tools has been missing. In our project OA Datenpraxis (Data Practice for Shaping the Open Access Transformation – Analysis, Recommendation, Training & Networking), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (Pampel et al. 2024), we have spent the past several months engaging with this topic by systematically mapping and analyzing the current landscape of Open Access dashboards.

We conducted a survey in which we identified nearly 60 dashboards. To enable a structured description of these dashboards, we developed a dedicated metadata schema. This schema captures key characteristics such as data sources, their license, responsible organizations, the type of output they monitor and more.

The resulting Open Access Dashboard Collection is now available on the project website. The underlying metadata schema is also accessible there and open for reuse."