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New service: Open Access Monitor

5. July 2021 | Open Science Services | Keine Kommentare |

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Starting today, the Main Library and the Central IT are offering researchers, faculties and institutes/clinics as well as libraries a new service: the Open Access Monitor. At https://www.oamonitor.uzh.ch, various thematically structured interactive dashboards allow complex evaluations related to Open Access. It is possible to customize the dashboards using various filters. For example, they can be filtered by publication year, institute, author name, but also by ISSN or journal title. The possibilities – even for complex queries – are wide-ranging with filter or search slot settings.

The Zurich Open Repository and Archive, ZORA, serves as the data basis. Every change in ZORA is immediately updated in the monitor. Accordingly, the monitor of the Main Library also serves to identify, supplement and clean up incomplete and inconsistent data in ZORA.

We would like to demontrate the monitor in three use cases.

Use case 1: An institute wants to display the OA share of its publication output in 2020.

To do this, first navigate to the menu item “Faculties and Institutes ” for the following dashboard.

The desired publication year and community can be filtered in the dashboard. Subsequently, all visualizations and key figures will be directly adjusted. Here, as an example, you can see the publications of 2020 of the Department of Informatics:

 If you now want to determine which publications are not yet Open Access, you can find out with two clicks. To do this, first click on the blue bar in the visualization at the bottom right (“donut”) that stands for “Closed”.

Now a menu appears with various options, including “Go to ZORA items”. Clicking on it opens a table with all ZORA entries that meet the filter criteria. You can easily export the table as a CSV file.

Various visualizations offer the possibility to obtain further information by clicking on the bars or to go directly to other visualizations. If you move the mouse over a visualization, three horizontal dots appear in the upper right corner on a grey background. Clicking on the dots in turn opens a menu that contains, among other things, the option “Inspect”.

Using “Inspect”, the number and distribution of the underlying documents is obtained and may also be exported via a CSV file.

Use case 2: A researcher would like to find out in which publishers and journals at UZH Gold Open Access publications are most frequent.

For this use case, the dashboard in the menu item “Publishers and Journals” is most suitable.

There are three different ways to get the result.

– In the search slot you can enter the following search query: agg_oastatus : “gold”.

– With “+ Add filter” you can enter “OA” for Field, “is” for Operator and “gold” for Value and then click on “Save”.

– Click on the golden bar in the donut diagram at the bottom left to open a selection menu. There you can select the option “Apply filter to current view”.

All three options lead to the same result:

By clicking on the tiles, further information is available, e.g. which researchers have published most frequently with the selected publisher or journal. To do this, select “Show top 100 researchers”.

Use case 3: A researcher wants to know what their OA share is

In the section “Authors”, you can search by name or ORCID iD. For technical reasons, please enter the name strictly according to the scheme “Last name First name”, also upper and lower case must be considered. Often several name variants appear, which all have to be selected one by one. The reason for this is that different name variants often appear in publications, e.g. “Doe J” and “Doe Jane”. We also recommend inserting the ORCID iD to ZORA so that the results are unique.

The results can be analysed in more detail according to the descriptions in use cases 1 and 2 by clicking on the individual diagrams. For example, authors can find out which of their publications are not yet open access, etc.

Further information

Technically, the monitor relies on the Elasticsearch search engine. The visualization of the data indexed in Elasticsearch is performed with the browser-based open source analysis platform Kibana, which is built on Elasticsearch.

Visit the blog post from 6 May 2021

For more information on Open Access Monitoring at the University of Zurich, see the blog post from 6 May 2021: https://www.uzh.ch/blog/hbz/2021/05/06/open-access-monitoring-pros-and-limits/?lang=en

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