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The Tenth Anniversary Of The Uwm Open Access Publication Fund, Svetlana Korolev

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The UWM Open Access Publication Fund has supported 127 articles for the total amount of $109,100 since 2012. For the past three years, the fund assisted 32 corresponding authors affiliated with 18 different departments, to publish open access articles in 31 journals. UWM publications and citations were analyzed in Web of Science. As a general trend, the UWM output has declined, but the portion of all open access publications remained steady at 40%, and grew for Gold journals from 12% to 16%. Based on the current trends depicting the growth of open access use at UWM, campus-wide discussions about support …

2020 Update Of The University Open Access Publication Fund, Svetlana Korolev

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

The University Open Access Publication Fund (UOAP) has been managed by the UWM Libraries since 2012. Its highest level of support, for eighteen articles in the total amount of $20,163, was provided in fiscal year 2019. Overall, since its establishment, the fund has paid $89,031 in support of publishing 104 articles. For comparison of levels of open access initiatives at other universities, we reviewed 15 UWM peer universities and found that only three offer such funds. We analyzed open access publications by UWM authors in Web of Science Core Collection. Our results showed a much higher output of DOAJ Gold …

Finding Open Access Publications By Uwm Authors, Svetlana Korolev

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This study looks at the open access publications affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in Web of Science Core Collection. Such analysis became possible based on a partnership of Clarivate Analytics and Impactstory for integrating new technology which enabled finding an individual open access article from a publisher’s website or an author self-archived manuscript from a repository into Web of Science. The study concludes with three observations:

1. There is 17.4% open access compared to all records affiliated with UWM.
2. There is open access citation advantage for UWM authors.
3. There is prevalence of Gold or Bronze over Green …