| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.02 |
| Liaison | Maxine Dandois-Fafard |
| Submission Date | Nov. 10, 2023 |
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
AC-11: Open Access to Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Nathalie
Gendron Director of the Service for research Research Service |
Does the institution offer repository hosting that makes versions of journal articles, book chapters, and other peer-reviewed scholarly works by its employees freely available on the public internet?:
Website URL where the open access repository is available:
A brief description of the open access repository:
EspaceINRS is the digital institutional repository of the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS). It contains a large number of publications (theses, dissertations, reports, articles, etc.) for which INRS holds the right to distribute. It adheres to the standards of the Open Archive Initiative (OAI), as applied by digital repositories of this kind.
Does the institution have a published policy that requires its employees to publish scholarly works open access or archive final post-peer reviewed versions of scholarly works in an open access repository?:
A copy of the institution's open access policy:
The institution's open access policy:
Does the policy cover the entire institution? :
Does the institution provide an open access article processing charge (APC) fund for employees?:
A brief description of the open access APC fund:
Does the institution provide open access journal hosting services through which peer-reviewed open access journals are hosted on local servers with dedicated staff who provide publishing support at no (or minimal) cost?:
A brief description of the open access journal hosting services:
INRS provides hosting services for open-access publication available here: https://www.efg.inrs.ca/la-revue/
INRS also utilizes the OJS platform, which is open-source software, and makes available the periodical "Revue Jeunes et Société". http://rjs.inrs.ca/index.php/rjs
In addition, INRS also hosts a popular science magazine published by La Synthèse newspaper, although it is not peer-reviewed. https://www.lasyntheseinrs.com/articles
Estimated percentage of peer-reviewed scholarly works published annually by the institution’s employees that are deposited in a designated open access repository:
Website URL where information about the institution’s support for open access is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The methodology for this credit involved conducting an affiliation-based search in the Scopus database. Our data is generally up to date in terms of affiliation because we validate the various INRS entities in the database. Once we obtained the result of INRS publications, we refined it to the year 2022, and then there will be a further refinement to consider only open-access documents.
By conducting an affiliation-based search in Scopus for the year 2022, we obtained 973 documents. Out of these, 376 documents are open access, which is approximately 39%. If we consider the strict definition of open access, including documents in the gold/diamond and gold-hybrid routes (author-paid open access), at INRS in 2022, there are 212 in the gold route and 54 in the gold-hybrid route.
However, it's important to note that this question pertains to peer-reviewed works. If we consider only articles, journals, letters, etc., we have a total of 711 documents in Scopus, and 359 of these documents are open access, accounting for about 50% of the total. Out of this number, 206 are in the gold route, and 50 are in the gold-hybrid route. By considering dissertations and theses as peer-reviewed works published each year, the percentage is closer to 60% of publications that would be available in open access.
The percentage is relatively higher when we take data from Web of Science (46%) for all publications. However, the number of documents identified is lower than that in Scopus: 683 instead of 973. That's why we chose to use Scopus data.
The percentage of open access publications aligns with the Leiden Ranking data for 2018-2021 and with the University of Quebec's report on open access in 2023.
The methodology for this credit involved conducting an affiliation-based search in the Scopus database. Our data is generally up to date in terms of affiliation because we validate the various INRS entities in the database. Once we obtained the result of INRS publications, we refined it to the year 2022, and then there will be a further refinement to consider only open-access documents.
By conducting an affiliation-based search in Scopus for the year 2022, we obtained 973 documents. Out of these, 376 documents are open access, which is approximately 39%. If we consider the strict definition of open access, including documents in the gold/diamond and gold-hybrid routes (author-paid open access), at INRS in 2022, there are 212 in the gold route and 54 in the gold-hybrid route.
However, it's important to note that this question pertains to peer-reviewed works. If we consider only articles, journals, letters, etc., we have a total of 711 documents in Scopus, and 359 of these documents are open access, accounting for about 50% of the total. Out of this number, 206 are in the gold route, and 50 are in the gold-hybrid route. By considering dissertations and theses as peer-reviewed works published each year, the percentage is closer to 60% of publications that would be available in open access.
The percentage is relatively higher when we take data from Web of Science (46%) for all publications. However, the number of documents identified is lower than that in Scopus: 683 instead of 973. That's why we chose to use Scopus data.
The percentage of open access publications aligns with the Leiden Ranking data for 2018-2021 and with the University of Quebec's report on open access in 2023.
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