The Unistra open science monitor measures the progress of the openness of scientific publications produced by the University of Strasbourg from open access data. It is fully in line with the University of Strasbourg's open science policy.
Open access rate of Unistra scientific publications, with a Crossref DOI, published published in 2023 and opened in 2024 is higher than the rate observed at national level.
The downturn observed over the last three years at national level is less marked at Unistra level, but is nonetheless becoming noticeable (this is a general trend observed in most of the establishments declining the barometer).
Publications in open access refer to publications from scientific research that are made available online in open access for all, without technical or financial barriers. The Unistra Open Science Monitor focuses on Unistra publications, i.e. publications where at least one of the authors is affiliated in the institution. It is therefore the activity of Unistra research that is taken into account. The open access rate represents the ratio of the number of open access publications to the total number of publications on the same perimeter (e.g. by year, discipline or publisher).
The generalisation of open access to scientific publications is one of the axes of the French national open science strategy, with the objective of a 100% open access rate in 2030. It facilitates, broadens and accelerates the dissemination of the results of research to scientific communities and to society in general: teachers, students, companies, associations, public policy actors, etc.
This monitor is derived from the French Open Science Monitor (OSM), published since 2019 by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It measures the evolution of open access to publications in France or in an institution.
The present Unistra monitor benefits from the evolutions brought by the version 3 of the national OSM released in March 2023.
The contributions of this new version are the following :
These evolutions take more into account the publications of humanities and social sciences (it was a limit of the previous versions of the OSM)
Note that some of these evolutions are in beta version (this is indicated at the head of the graphs)
For the monitor of the University of Strasbourg, the data sources used are the Web of Science, HAL, PubMed, theses.fr and Works-magnet (this one is used for the datasets). Data sources and method follow the University of Lorraine recipe.
The previous source extractions were performed in March 2025.
Enriched data are available in csv and jsonl formats here :
json lines (this file contains all history data : OA status for each DOI and for each observation date)
There are two updates to consider :