Open science thermometer

Open science is a priority for the UAB. At the beginning of 2024 the open science website was launched to make visible the actions that the areas and services of the University are carrying out with regard to the different axes of open science. The Open Science Advisory Committee, created from the UAB open science strategy and commitments, included in its action plan the creation and publication of the open science thermometer. Organised into five pillars: open access, research data, open education, citizen science and scientific integrity, it presents disaggregated data from the past three years and cumulative data from 2021 in most sections.

The Open Access axis shows figures for research documents in the UAB Digital Document Repository (DDD), a comparison of EGRETA research documents with full text in the DDD (global and by areas of knowledge), scientific journal articles and PhD theses in the DDD, and diamond journal titles in the Digital Journals Service (ReDi), monographs and collections of the Publications Service. Finally, the evolution of APCs (Article Processing Charges) assigned by publisher and year since the beginning of the transformative agreements is shown.

The figures in relation to the datasets published in the federated and multidisciplinary data repository CORA.RDR are shown in the Research Data axis.

In Open Education are the figures on challenges (includes challenge-based learning and service learning) shared by regional agents, entities that have shared challenges, and students who have conducted their final project addressing the challenges.

Citizen science projects and those evaluated by the Ethics Committee are found in the last two axes.

This tool, the result of the efforts of the entire institution, shows the current state of open science at the UAB and, therefore, allows detecting where more progress must be made to create an open science environment that contributes to improving the quality, efficiency and responsiveness of teaching, research and innovation.

For more information please send an e-mail to ciencia.oberta@uab.cat.