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=== Tracking open science adoption ===
The French Open Science Monitor was conceived from the start to capture "open access dynamic". This has significant implication in terms of design and data flow as the "OA status of a publication evolves over time" due to embargo policies as well retrospective opening of past content.
Despite significant differences in regards to methodologies or to data source, Pierre Mounier underlined in 2022 that "we observe the same dynamic" in the open access monitors of "three different European countries": the French, German and Dutch monitor all convege to show that slightly more than 60% of research is published in open access.

=== Economic analysis ===
Open science monitors aim to facilitate the estimation of scientific publishing costs. Without any aggregation of publication data, "information on expenditure for open access publication fees  and especially for non-open access publication fees is often not available centrally"
The monitor can also contribute to better assess the economic impact of open science across the entire academic ecosystem. While it is generally assumed that the conversion to open access publishing should not be costlier than the existing system, there can still be significant variations, especially with an APC-based model: institutions with a high volume of publication but limited needs for subscriptions can be in a "worse position financially".

== References ==

== Bibliography ==

=== Books & Thesis ===
Wouters, P. F. (1999). The citation culture (Thesis). Retrieved 2018-09-09.
Chen, George; Posada, Alejandro; Chan, Leslie (2019-06-02). "Vertical Integration in Academic Publishing : Implications for Knowledge Inequality". In Pierre Mounier (ed.). Connecting the Knowledge Commons – From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure : The 22nd International Conference on Electronic Publishing – Revised Selected Papers. Laboratoire d'idées. Marseille: OpenEdition Press. ISBN 979-10-365-3802-5. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
Moore, Samuel (2019). Common Struggles: Policy-based vs. scholar-led approaches to open access in the humanities (thesis deposit) (Thesis). King's College London. Retrieved 2021-12-11.

=== Reports ===
Johnson, Rob; Chiarelli (2017-08-15). Defining and Prototyping an Open Access Dashboard (Report). JISC.
Smith, Elta; Parks, Sarah; Chataway, Joanna (2016). A framework to monitor open science trends in the EU (Report). Rand Europe.
European Commission. Directorate General for Research and Innovation. (2019). Future of scholarly publishing and scholarly communication: report of the Expert Group to the European Commission (Report). LU: Publications Office. doi:10.2777/836532. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
Aspesi, Claudio; Allen, Nicole Starr; Crow, Raym; Daugherty, Shawn; Joseph, Heather; McArthur, Joseph; Shockey, Nick (2019-04-03). SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions (Report). LIS Scholarship Archive. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
Borrego, Ángel (2021). Creació d'un indicador d'accés obert a la producció científica de Catalunya (PDF) (Report). Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya.
Philipp, Tobias; Botz, Georg; Kita, Jean-Claude; Sänger, Astrid; Siegert, Olaf; Reumaux, Mathilde (2021-05-10). Open Access Monitoring: Guidelines and Recommendations for Research Organisations and Funders (Report). Retrieved 2023-10-05.

=== Journal articles ===
Elbæk, Mikael K. (2014). "Danish Open Access Barometer: mapping Open Access to Danish research and creation of an online prototype for automated open access monitoring". ScieCom Info. 10 (1). ISSN 1652-3202. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
Smith, Elta; Parks, Sarah; Chataway, Joanna (2016). "A framework to monitor open science trends in the EU". Informing science and innovation policies: Towards the next generation of data and indicators. OECD Blue Sky III Forum.
Schopfel, Joachim; Prost, Hélène (2019). "The scope of open science monitoring and grey literature". 12th Conference on Grey Literature and Repositories. hdl:20.500.12210/70680.
Wainwright, Joel; Bervejillo, Guillermo (January 2021). "Leveraging monopoly power up the value chain: Academic publishing in an era of surveillance capitalism". Geoforum. 118: 210–212. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.04.012. ISSN 0016-7185. S2CID 234328559.
Bracco, Laetitia (2022-10-03). "Promoting Open Science through bibliometrics: a practical guide to build an open access monitor". LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries. 32 (1): 1–18. doi:10.53377/lq.11545. ISSN 2213-056X. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
Bracco, Laetitia; L'Hôte, Anne; Jeangirard, Eric; Torny, Didier (2022). "Extending the open monitoring of open science". HAL.
Chaignon, Lauranne; Egret, Daniel (2022-04-12). "Identifying scientific publications countrywide and measuring their open access: The case of the French Open Science Barometer (BSO)". Quantitative Science Studies. 3 (1): 18–36. doi:10.1162/qss_a_00179. ISSN 2641-3337. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
Jeangirard, Éric (2022). "L'utilisation de l'apprentissage automatique dans le Baromètre de la science ouverte : une façon de réconcilier bibliométrie et science ouverte ?". Arabesques (107): 10–11. doi:10.35562/arabesques.3084. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
Achenbach, Kelly; Błaszczyńska, Marta; De Paoli, Stefano; Di Donato, Francesca; Dumouchel, Suzanne; Forbes, Paula; Kraker, Peter; Vignoli, Michela (2022). "Defining discovery: Is Google Scholar a discovery platform? An essay on the need for a new approach to scholarly discovery". Open Research Europe. 2: 28. doi:10.12688/openreseurope.14318.2. ISSN 2732-5121. PMC 10445934. PMID 37645282.
Barbers, Irene; Stanzel, Franziska; Mittermaier, Bernhard (2022-04-03). "Open Access Monitor Germany: Best Practice in Providing Metrics for Analysis and Decision-Making". Serials Review. 48 (1–2): 49–62. doi:10.1080/00987913.2022.2066968. ISSN 0098-7913. S2CID 249260262. Retrieved 2023-09-08.

=== Conferences ===
Dijk, E.M.S.; Baars, C.; Hogenaar, A.Th.; van Meel, M. (2006). "NARCIS: The Gateway to Dutch Scientific Information. ELPUB 2006". Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture. Bansko, Bulgaria: ELPUB. pp. 49–58.
Jeangirard, Eric (2019-06-07). Monitoring Open Access at a national level: French case study. ELPUB 2019 23d International Conference on Electronic Publishing. arXiv:2104.06844. doi:10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.20. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
Papastefanatos, George; Papadopoulou, Elli; Meimaris, Marios; Lempesis, Antonis; Martziou, Stefania; Manghi, Paolo; Manola, Natalia (2020). "Open Science Observatory: Monitoring Open Science in Europe". In Ladjel Bellatreche; Mária Bieliková; Omar Boussaïd; Barbara Catania; Jérôme Darmont; Elena Demidova; Fabien Duchateau; Mark Hall; et al. (eds.). ADBIS, TPDL and EDA 2020 Common Workshops and Doctoral Consortium. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Vol. 1260. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 341–346. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55814-7_29. ISBN 978-3-030-55814-7.
Mounier, Pierre (2022-10-13). "Academic Publishing and Open Science – Where do we stand?". Proceedings of the Paris Open Science European Conference : OSEC 2022. Laboratoire d'idées. Marseille: OpenEdition Press. pp. 69–78. ISBN 979-10-365-4562-7. Retrieved 2023-09-14.

=== Other publications ===
Olsbo, Pekka (2017). "Measurement of Open Access as an Infrastructural Challenge: The Case of Finland". Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices. IOS Press. pp. 217–226. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-769-6-217. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
Open Science Monitor Methodological Note v2 (Report). European Commission. 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
Hameau, Thérèse (2018-08-31). "Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note". Ouvrir la Science. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
Knecht, Sicco de (2018-07-12). "Elsevier is trying to co-opt the open science space, and we shouldn't let them". ScienceGuide. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
Tennant, Jon (2018-06-29). "Elsevier are corrupting open science in Europe". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
Research assessment and implementation of Open Science (PDF) (Report). Council of the European Union. 2022.