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Open Access policies: numbers and types

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ROARMAP

Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies http://roarmap.eprints.org Sought out existing policies that were not registered in

ROARMAP to ensure comprehensiveness Developed a new, detailed classification scheme Classified all policies according to this scheme Re-launched with 660+ policies fully classified

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

Current global picture: Open Access policiesRegion Policies

Europe 389

North America 145

Central & South America 34

Africa 16

Asia 40

Oceania 39

Total 663

Data: ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Policies and Mandates) http://roarmap.eprints.org/

Open Access policies worldwide

Europe (389)

North Amer-ica (145)

Central & South Amer-

ica (34)

Africa (16) Asia (40)Oceania (39)

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

Open Access policymakers worldwide

Research funders (72)

Research institutions (461)

Research funder and institutions

(53)

Multiple research organisations (8)

Sub-units of institutions (69)

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

Open Access mandates worldwide

Europe (237; 62%)

North Amer-ica (75; 19%)

Central & South Amer-ica (18; 5%)

Africa (10; 3%)

Asia (24; 6%)Oceania (20; 5%)

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

Green and Gold policy requirements (funder policies)

Deposit in repository required

(58%)

Deposit in repository requested

(21%)

Deposit in repository not speci-fied (21%)

OA publishing required (0.3%)

Recom-mended al-

ternative to Green OA (15%)

Permit-ted al-

ternative to Green

OA (15%)

Not spec-ified/other (70%)

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

Green and Gold policy requirements (institutional policies)

Deposit in repository required

(60%)

Deposit in repository requested

(23%)

Deposit in repository not speci-fied (19%) OA publishing required (0.3%)

Recom-mended al-ternative to Green OA

(14%)

Permitted alternative to Green OA (15%)

Not specified / other (71%)

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

Time of deposit (mandatory policies)

No later than time of acceptance for publication

16%

No later than publication date19%

By end of policy-specified embargo

9%

When publisher permits6%

Not specified39%

Other11%

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

Time of deposit (voluntary policies)

No later than time of acceptance for publica-tion7% No later than publication date

4%

By end of policy-specified embargo6%

When publisher permits9%

Not specified69%

Other5%

Data: ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/ (data point February 2015)

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