Commemorating 10 Years of KAUST’s Open Access Policy - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

"With the signing of its open access policy in June 2014, KAUST embarked on a journey to make it easier for people around the world to access and read articles, conference papers, and other research produced by KAUST researchers. The deposit of publications covered by the policy led to the steady growth of the KAUST Research Repository, which also contains a wealth of openly accessible theses, dissertations, datasets, and other scholarly outputs. This fosters global access to KAUST's intellectual contributions, maximizing their reach and impact...

10-Year Highlights

- Open access provided to 18,000 publications through the repository since 2014 (over 70% of KAUST-affiliated publications during this period).

- Over 3.5 million downloads of open-access files.

- 20  publisher agreements with major publishers for KAUST-affiliated researchers to be made directly open access through the publishers’ websites at either no cost or discounted cost to the authors.

- Over 1,000 publications published open access through these agreements since 2019.

- 2nd among Asian universities in the CWTS Leiden Ranking regarding the percentage of recent publications that are open access."