eyeballing the new CWTS Leiden university rankings from an open access perspective...
Indonesian universities dominate the top 100 (of most OA universities), with >95% open access.
It goes to show that when a country system isn't embroiled in the psychological lure of overly expensive commercial publishers, that high levels of open access to research publications are achievable.
non-Indonesian universities that are doing a great job of ensuring very high levels (>95%) of open access to research publications they produce include:
* Social Sciences University of Ankara (Türkiye)
* Universidad Independiente (Costa Rica)
* Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes (Ecuador)
* Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK)
* Universitario Francisco de Asís (Uruguay)
* Universidad César Vallejo (Peru)
* Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (Bangladesh)
often high percentages of open access are associated with a disciplinary focus on biomedical science e.g. with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
...which makes the 99.1% OA achieved by the Social Sciences University of Ankara all the more impressive. I'll have to dig deeper on that one.
lots of room for improvement at US universities on open access.
Rockefeller & Caltech doing the best at the moment?
MIT, unsurprisingly high-up the US leaderboard 👍
Imagine a university in a wealthy country where less than 50% of the recent research output is openly accessible to the public?
😢
Ross Mounce