This year's measurement from the Open Access Indicator was published by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science on 1 April. The indicator is a measure of the proportion of the scientific publications by the Danish universities that are published as Open Access, i.e. distributed online, free of cost or other barriers.
DTU is doing good
DTU is still high on the list with just over 73% Open Access measured on 3,917 publications, of which 2,849 are Open Access. This is an increase of 9-percentage points! The share was 64% last year. We are still only surpassed by the IT University, scoring high based on very few publications.
The average national increase raised from 44% to 52% and does therefore not quite reach the national goal for Open Access for this year of 54%. Seen in this context, DTU is doing extremely well.
The Open Access Indicator's latest measurement
Potential for more
The report for DTU shows that 352 publications have an unused Open Access potential, ie. publications that could be published Open Access. These are publications where the publisher allows "parallel publishing" of the post-print version / Authors accepted manuscript and where the embargo period is not over 12 months. If DTU researchers send the post-print version to DTU Library, we take care of the registration in DTU Orbit and ensure that copyright and any embargo periods for publication are adhered to.
If we had only captured these 352 publications, the Open Access share for DTU would have been 82%!
Increasing the Open Access share at DTU towards the national targets of 100% from 2025 onwards is dependent on DTU researchers continuing to send all their post-prints to DTU Library.
What do you get out of it? The answer is visibility
By uploading your post-print version / Authors accepted manuscript to DTU Orbit, your research will be broader - and sometimes faster - out and benefit the research community. The point of the post-print version is precisely that we must make it available Open Access. Your research is thus also available to those who have not purchased access to the publisher version - the post-print is available free of charge to everyone.
The importance of free access to research results has become particularly evident in these Corona times, where it is imperative that all researchers have access to scientific literature to resolve the worldwide crisis as quickly as possible.
Send more post-prints
Therefore, the important message is that DTU researchers must remember to submit their post-print versions of the article when it is ready for publication in a scientific journal, by submitting it to the DTU Library at orbit@dtu.dk
DTU Library is happy to help you set up an automatic report and the department or center will receive an email every month with an overview of the publications where DTU Library has not yet received post-print. Send an email to orbit@dtu.dk if you want a monthly report.
Contact
Please send questions about research registration and Open Access to bibliotek@dtu.dk