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Open Access
From Data to Decisions: Visualizing Open Access Publishing Trends to Inform Institutional Strategy
2025-05-01
Yarnell, Amy
Shelawala, Nicole
Gorman, Emily
Background
The researchers at our public health sciences university often express their concerns about funding for Open Access (OA) publishing. The library currently has a limited OA publishing fund for students and junior faculty, but it is not able to serve the whole campus community and often runs out of funds before the end of each fiscal year. As part of a broader effort to investigate more effective and sustainable avenues of support for OA fees, the library’s Scholarly Communications Committee undertook a project to track the university’s OA publications through an interactive dashboard. We plan to use this dashboard to inform decisions about potential OA publishing agreements and assess their impact.
Description
Our goal was to create an accessible and sustainable product that could be shared with and customized for multiple campus stakeholders. To achieve this, publication data across the entire university was exported from Scopus and imported to Microsoft's Power BI, where we created an interactive dashboard that visualizes publishing trends by OA model, publisher, journal, year, and school for the last five years. Considering that committee membership changes annually, we focused on optimizing the process of updating the dashboard with new data and automating steps where possible. The dashboard design required several iterations and will continue to be refined over time as we gain insight into the questions about OA publishing that are of importance to our community.
Library leadership responded positively to the dashboard, and our next step is to roll the dashboard out to campus and incorporate additional feedback. In the near future, we will conduct a survey of our institution’s researchers to get a better sense of the funding sources available to them for OA publishing and how this impacts their publishing decisions. We also plan to evaluate the dashboard’s success through this survey as well as through usage statistics.
Conclusions
Our dashboard shows that nearly two-thirds of our institution’s publications from the past five years (that are indexed in Scopus) are OA. Of those, 42% are Gold OA (28% of total publications). We can also see from our dashboard that OA publications have a higher average citation count than non-OA.
Ultimately, we will integrate the publication data with survey results, data from our current OA publishing fund, and potentially other relevant data sources as applicable and available to help inform and evaluate our OA publishing initiatives. We know that many health sciences libraries are interested in supporting OA publishing, and we hope to provide a well-documented process for visualizing these trends that could be easily adapted by others.
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Open Access
From Data to Decisions: Visualizing Open Access Publishing Trends to Inform Institutional Strategy
2025-10-20
Yarnell, Amy
Shelawala, Nicole
Gorman, Emily
Background
The researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) often express concerns about funding for Open Access (OA) publishing. As part of a broader effort to investigate more sustainable avenues of support for OA fees, the UMB Health Sciences and Human Services Library’s Scholarly Communications Committee undertook a project to track the university’s OA publications through an interactive dashboard. We plan to use this dashboard to inform decisions about potential OA publishing agreements and assess their impact.
Description
Our goal was to create an accessible and sustainable product that could be customized for multiple campus stakeholders. To achieve this, publication data across the entire university was exported from Scopus and imported to Microsoft's Power BI, where we created an interactive dashboard that visualizes publishing trends by OA model, publisher, journal, year, and school for the last five years.
We focused on optimizing the process of updating the dashboard and automating steps where possible. The dashboard design required several iterations and will continue to be refined over time as we gain insight into the questions about OA publishing that are of importance to our community. We plan to incorporate data on publishing costs next year.
Conclusions
Our dashboard shows that nearly two-thirds of UMB’s publications from the past five years (that are indexed in Scopus) are OA. Of those, 42% are Gold OA (28% of total publications). We can also see from our dashboard that OA publications have a higher average citation count than non-OA.
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Open Access
The AI That Always Agrees With You Is Making You Worse
2026-04-01
Wallace, Scott
There is a moment in therapy that no digital mental health AI tool has managed to replicate, and perhaps should not try to. It is the moment when the therapist says nothing. Five seconds pass, then ten, maybe fifteen. And in that quiet space, something often happens. The client says something they might never have said if the therapist had filled the gap with reassurance, empathy, or validation. Silence, used well, is where insight can emerge.
In mental health therapy, silence is not an accident, it is a deliberate part of the work. Used well, silence creates a space where insight can emerge.
A landmark study published this month in Science has now quantified how far the AI systems powering mental health apps have drifted from that moment of productive discomfort. And what it costs us when they do.
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Open Access
Health Sciences & Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Strategic Plan (2022-2026)
2026
University of Maryland, Baltimore. Health Sciences and Human Services Library
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Open Access
Univerisity of Maryland, Baltimore Institutional Self Study 2025
University of Maryland, Baltimore
2025-02
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