Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: The MELIBEA score

• Published in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 67; no. 11; p. 2815
• Main Authors: Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe, Boivin, Jade, Gargouri, Yassine, Larivière, Vincent, Harnad, Stevan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.11.2016
• Subjects: Correlation; Empirical analysis; Institutional repositories; Open access; Performance evaluation; Publication output; Reaction time; Studies

MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open-access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the "strength" of open access (OA) mandates (registered in ROARMAP). We analyzed total Web of Science-(WoS)-indexed publication output i...