Open Science Barometers

The French Open Science Barometer (BSO) is one of the actions of the National Plan for Open Science. Set up in 2019, it tracks the national rate of Open Access Research publications: publications in which at least one of the authors is affiliated with an institution in France. Any research establishment can now ask the Ministry to use these indicators to build its own Barometer.

In 2022, the UM will have a local version of the French Open Science Barometer (BSO). It concerns publications from 2017 to 2020 for which at least one of the authors is affiliated with our University.  

In 2021, 73% of University of Montpellier publications published in 2020 were available in open access. The national average for the same year was 62%. 

Open access rate for University of Montpellier publications

For the whole University

The dynamic of opening up the University's publications

Ways of opening publications at the University

Openness, by publication type

Opening by publication language

Mentioning research data - [beta] version

Proportion of University publications mentioning the use of data

Proportion of University publications that mention having produced their own data 

Proportion of University publications that mention data sharing 

Proportion of University publications that include a "Data Availability Statement" section 

Mentioning source codes & software - Version [beta] 

Proportion of University publications mentioning the use of code or software, by year of publication

Proportion of University publications mentioning the creation of their code or software, by year of publication

Proportion of University publications that mention code or software sharing 

By discipline

Opening-up dynamics, by discipline

Openings by discipline

By publisher

The dynamics of opening up, by publisher

Business models for publishing at the University

Opening policies, by publisher

Opening licenses for publications at the University

The financial impact of publication fees at the University

Open archives

The drive to open up the University's publications in open archives

The most popular open archives for University publications

HAL's place among the open archives used at the University

For doctoral theses

Opening rate of doctoral theses per year

Distribution of doctoral theses by opening date

Warning Data used for the Montpellier Barometer comes from a variety of sources, including Web of Science, SciVal and HAL. Despite the cross-referencing of these data, the list of publications is not exhaustive. For the time being, only publications with a DOI can be taken into account. As Humanities and Social Sciences publications are generally under-represented in databases, they may also be under-represented in the Barometer. The integration of publications listed in HAL without a DOI is planned for the near future.