Abstract
This article gives a comprehensive overview of recent Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) publications available in Open Access. With a focus on research articles from the last decade (2008–2018), this work aims to fill the gap in previous studies about publishing trends and impact monitoring of publications by researchers from the Spanish National Research Council. Evolution and main trends of Green and Gold Open Access routes at CSIC are addressed through a close insight into DIGITAL.CSIC repository and institutional Open Access Publishing Support Programme. The article draws on major conclusions at a time when an institutional Open Access mandate has just entered into force. The article also relates findings about performance of institutional Open Access Publishing Initiative and total volume of CSIC articles published in Open Access with an estimation of overall costs on article processing charges during these years. Furthermore, the data serve as a basis to make preliminary considerations as to opportunities to move from a subscription-based model to one fully aligned with Gold Open Access publishing. The data analyzed come from a variety of sources, including public information and internal records maintained by the CSIC E-resources Subscription programme, DIGITAL.CSIC and data retrieved from GesBIB, an internal, in-house development tool that integrates bibliographic information about CSIC publications as well as data from several external APIs, including Unpaywall, DOAJ and Sherpa Romeo.
Highlights
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and is one of the largest in Europe
Content growth on DIGITAL.CSIC rests on a distributed model whereby in addition to its Technical Office, the network of CSIC research libraries plays an active role in increasing repository’s collections and enabling Open Access. This Mediated Archiving Service is provided to institutional authors as a channel for them to delegate on the Technical Office or their library the deposit of their research outputs and it accounts for more than 90% of research outputs upload and the remainder results from author’s self-archiving and automated bulk ingests managed by DIGITAL.CSIC Technical Office [7]
Financial support for each article depends on the type of agreement reached with specific publisher. It depends on whether it is based on membership, whether it applies a discount linked to annual subscription to publisher journals package, and whether the agreement is with a Gold Open Access publisher
Summary
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and is one of the largest in Europe. According thethe institutional research revolveswhen around eight principal scientific–technical ranging to from most basic or CSIC fundamental aspects(including of science all to typologies) the most complex technological tool GesBIB, publications surpassed. Publication in books, monographs institutional tool GesBIB, CSIC publications (including all typologies) surpassed 143,000 between journals that are not on Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus indexes outstands in Humanities/Social. Most CSIC publications are the result of institutional, national and international collaboration. On CSIC relevance in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Environmental Sciences, Physics, WoS-based analysis of number of CSIC publications in 2018 by thematic areas sheds light on Genetics, AEngineering, Materials Sciences and Agriculture. (17%), Materials Science (15%), Chemistry (13%), Agricultural Sciences (10%), Food Science (6%) and Scientific of CSIC publications is well documented. Access (OA) as compared to total volume of CSIC research articles published in 2008–2018
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