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The Transformation of the Green Road to Open Access

Version 1 : Received: 14 February 2023 / Approved: 16 February 2023 / Online: 16 February 2023 (04:12:14 CET)

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Schöpfel, J.; Chaudiron, S.; Jacquemin, B.; Kergosien, E.; Prost, H.; Thiault, F. The Transformation of the Green Road to Open Access. Publications 2023, 11, 29. Schöpfel, J.; Chaudiron, S.; Jacquemin, B.; Kergosien, E.; Prost, H.; Thiault, F. The Transformation of the Green Road to Open Access. Publications 2023, 11, 29.

Abstract

(1) Background: The 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative recommended on self-archiving of scientific articles in open repositories as the “green road” to open access. Twenty years later, only one part of the researchers deposits their publications in open repositories; moreover, one part of the repositories’ content is not based on self-archived deposits but on mediated nonfaculty contributions. The purpose of the paper is to provide more empirical evidence on this situation and to assess the impact on the future of the green road. (2) Methods: We analyzed the contributions on the French national HAL repository from more than 1,000 laboratories affiliated to the ten most important French research universities, with a focus on 2020, representing 14,023 contributor accounts and 166,939 deposits. (3) Results: We identified seven different types of contributor accounts, including deposits from nonfaculty staff and import flows from other platforms. Mediated nonfaculty contribution accounts for at least 48% of the deposits. We also identified difference between institutions and disciplines. (4) Conclusions: Our empirical results reveal a transformation of open repositories from self-archiving and direct scientific communication towards research information management. Repositories like HAL are somewhere in the middle of the process. The paper describes data quality as the main issue and major challenge of this transformation.

Keywords

open science; open access; open repositories; green road; self-archiving; contributor; research assessment; monitoring

Subject

Social Sciences, Library and Information Sciences

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