About the Swiss Open Access Monitor

The Swiss Open Access Monitor provides basic indicators for the vision of the Swiss National Strategy on Open Access. The Monitor collects and visualises data on scientific publications written by scientific staff affiliated with a Swiss higher education institution or research institute.

The Swiss Open Access Monitor was developed within the framework of the National Open Access Monitoring (NOAM) project, led by the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries. The project was half funded by the Open Science programme 2021-2024 and half by the Consortium. A representative task force consisting of members of the Arbeitskreis Open Access (AKOA) expertly advised and accompanied the project.

Major aims of the project:

Collect data on publications to determine the Open Access share.
Make Open Access shares visible and data accessible.
Ensure the future provision of the Swiss Open Access Monitor.

The website oamonitor.ch is the platform to provide a view of the Open Access shares on scholarly publishing in Switzerland.

The project collects data on the number of publications and the type of Open Access used, but not on costs.

National Open Access Monitoring (NOAM) project

Journal Monitor (OAM-CH) and Repository Monitor

The Swiss Open Access Monitor collects data from two different types of sources:

Journal Monitor (OAM-CH)

Journal article data retrieved from the OpenAlex database displayed on the Journal Monitor (OAM-CH) platform. More

Strategic partner:

Repository monitor

Data on journal articles, books, book parts and conference papers collected from Swiss institutional repositories based on a national survey. More

In cooperation with members of:

This website provides a view of both monitors, (links to) data, visualisations, and underlying datasets.