The prevalence of green and grey open access: Where do physical science researchers archive their publications?

Do researchers use open research data? Exploring the relationships between usage trends and metadata quality across scientific disciplines from the Figshare case

“…Another issue is that the OA policies, started early before the OD policies, could have already created a base of technical skills among researchers to take them to publish other resources more than datasets. Even if the approaches among disciplines and regions might differ, there are ongoing trends relating OA publication [30,68]. As a result, many researchers are already used to share their pre-prints or post-prints of published research articles and the subsidiary resources (such as figures) to institutional repositories, and mostly, to academic social networks such as ResearchGate [40,68,69].…”

“…Even if the approaches among disciplines and regions might differ, there are ongoing trends relating OA publication [30,68]. As a result, many researchers are already used to share their pre-prints or post-prints of published research articles and the subsidiary resources (such as figures) to institutional repositories, and mostly, to academic social networks such as ResearchGate [40,68,69]. One must consider two issues when analysing this finding.…”

Reaping the benefits of open science in scholarly communication

“…The remainder 43% share were openly accessible, but only 67 articles (14%) were self-archived at an institutional or subject repository[23]. Noting that this low uptake of the green open access route could not be ascribed to publishers' archiving policies, since nearly all publishers allowed researchers to use green self-archiving, Zhang and Watson concluded that the results "speak to a need for education... given the low green open access deposit rate 9 years after the implementation of an open access policy"[23].On the other hand, a 2014 study of 1,525 European highly cited scientists concluded that successful scientists systematically publicize their research by linking their online list of publications and their personal websites either directly to the self-archived articles or to subject repositories[24].To publish and update their personal websites, scholars can either buy a domain name or use one of the numerous websites offering free hosting. Free hosting services offer website templates developed by professional designers, including themes for listing publications and conference presentations.…”

Reaping the benefits of open science in scholarly communication

“…The remainder 43% share were openly accessible, but only 67 articles (14%) were self-archived at an institutional or subject repository. 21 Noting that this low uptake of the green open access route could not be ascribed to publishers' archiving policies, since nearly all publishers allowed researchers to use green self-archiving, Zhang and Watson concluded that the results "speak to a need for education. .…”

“…given the low green open access deposit rate 9 years after the implementation of an open access policy". 21 On the other hand, a study of 1,525 European highly cited scientists concludes that successful scientists systematically publicize their research by linking their online list of publications and their personal websites either directly to the self-archived articles or to subject repositories. 22 Scholars willing to release their personal websites can either buy at low yearly cost a domain name on the Internet or freely use the services of the numerous websites offering free hosting.…”