Using data from 2022, this report is the fifth annual update to the “State of Open at the University of Colorado Boulder: A Baseline Analysis of Open Access Practices from 2012 to 2018”: https://doi.org/10.25810/vprn-v113. It includes analyses of open access (OA) article publishing activities, OA repository usage, and data publishing practices by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). Data used to produce this report can be found here: https://doi.org/10.25810/ktb4-ce48
Key findings from this report include:
72% of articles published in 2022 by CU Boulder authors are available via some type of OA (Gold, Green, Hybrid, or Bronze) (up from 62% at the time of the 2021 report);
In 2022, the CU Boulder Libraries OA Fund funded author fees totaling 69,804for41journalarticlespublishedbyCUBoulderauthorsinfullOAjournals(downfrom89,761 for 53 journal articles in 2021); however, these decreases have more to do with the OA Fund being exhausted earlier in the fiscal year than an actual decrease in funding;
At the end of 2022, there were 16,090 OA items in the CU Scholar institutional repository (up from 13,791 in 2021), and these items were downloaded a total of 36,730 times in 2022 (down from 39,393 in 2021);
In the annual Faculty Report of Professional Activities (FRPA), faculty reported 56 published data sets in 2022 (down from 92 in 2021) with 87.5% of these citations including Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) (up from 82.6% in 2021) and 95% of these citations identifying a formal data repository (same as 95% in 2021);
The Libraries and its partners registered 335 DataCite DOIs for published data sets in 2022 (down from 416 in 2021);
This is the first year there has been a decrease in either the number of reported published data sets in FRPA or the number of DataCite DOIs registered for published data sets, so it will be important to monitor these numbers in the coming years to see if this is an anomaly or the start of a new trend.</p
