A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access Performance

We identify two issues that obstruct the clear assessment of open access publishing performance by academics, librarians, and other stakeholders. Firstly, the current open access categories are difficult to understand and reason about. Secondly, there are no easily accessible tools that allow many c...

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Main Authors: Aniek Roelofs, Cameron Neylon, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, James Peter Diprose, Kathryn Napier, Katie Wilson, Lucy Montgomery, Rebecca Nina Handcock, Richard Hosking, Richard Rigoni, Tuan-Yow Chien
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Published: Michigan Publishing 2023-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/3398/
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Cameron Neylon
Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang
James Peter Diprose
Kathryn Napier
Katie Wilson
Lucy Montgomery
Rebecca Nina Handcock
Richard Hosking
Richard Rigoni
Tuan-Yow Chien
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Cameron Neylon
Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang
James Peter Diprose
Kathryn Napier
Katie Wilson
Lucy Montgomery
Rebecca Nina Handcock
Richard Hosking
Richard Rigoni
Tuan-Yow Chien
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description We identify two issues that obstruct the clear assessment of open access publishing performance by academics, librarians, and other stakeholders. Firstly, the current open access categories are difficult to understand and reason about. Secondly, there are no easily accessible tools that allow many countries and institutions to view their open access publishing performance. To address the first issue, we have re-designed the open access categories using descriptive category names rather than opaque colour names, re-organised the categories into a hierarchy to facilitate top-down comprehension, and presented publisher and repository-based open access categories without preferencing one category over the other. To address the second issue, we have developed the COKI Open Access Dashboard, an open-source, public dashboard for measuring and visualising the open access performance of 189 countries and over 7000 institutions. We explore the design decisions underlying the redesigned categories and the dashboard.
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spelling doaj-art-79a74c778c924ef9b89f5963406c5fd42025-08-20T02:48:39ZengMichigan PublishingJournal of Electronic Publishing1080-27112023-05-0126110.3998/jep.3398A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access PerformanceAniek Roelofs0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0485-3388Cameron Neylon1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716XChun-Kai (Karl) Huang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9656-5932James Peter Diprose3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5094-3571Kathryn Napier4Katie Wilson5Lucy Montgomery6https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6551-8140Rebecca Nina Handcock7https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5903-6620Richard Hosking8https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8288-5241Richard RigoniTuan-Yow Chien9https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6237-7423Curtin University, Curtin Institute for ComputationCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityCurtin University, Curtin Institute for ComputationFaculty of Education, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of WellingtonCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityCurtin Institute for Computation, Curtin UniversityCentre for Culture and Technology,, Curtin UniversityCentre for Culture and Technology, Curtin UniversityWe identify two issues that obstruct the clear assessment of open access publishing performance by academics, librarians, and other stakeholders. Firstly, the current open access categories are difficult to understand and reason about. Secondly, there are no easily accessible tools that allow many countries and institutions to view their open access publishing performance. To address the first issue, we have re-designed the open access categories using descriptive category names rather than opaque colour names, re-organised the categories into a hierarchy to facilitate top-down comprehension, and presented publisher and repository-based open access categories without preferencing one category over the other. To address the second issue, we have developed the COKI Open Access Dashboard, an open-source, public dashboard for measuring and visualising the open access performance of 189 countries and over 7000 institutions. We explore the design decisions underlying the redesigned categories and the dashboard.https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/3398/open accessopen access categorieshistory of open access categoriesopen access dashboardopen access performance
spellingShingle Aniek Roelofs
Cameron Neylon
Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang
James Peter Diprose
Kathryn Napier
Katie Wilson
Lucy Montgomery
Rebecca Nina Handcock
Richard Hosking
Richard Rigoni
Tuan-Yow Chien
A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access Performance
Journal of Electronic Publishing
open access
open access categories
history of open access categories
open access dashboard
open access performance
title A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access Performance
title_full A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access Performance
title_fullStr A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access Performance
title_full_unstemmed A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access Performance
title_short A User-Friendly Dashboard for Tracking Global Open Access Performance
title_sort user friendly dashboard for tracking global open access performance
topic open access
open access categories
history of open access categories
open access dashboard
open access performance
url https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/3398/
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