Mapping the Landscape of Open Access Dashboards - A Dataset for Research and Infrastructure Development

As Open Access continues to gain importance in science policy, understanding the proportion of Open Access publications relative to the total research output of research-performing organizations, individual countries, or even globally has become increasingly relevant. In response, dashboards are being developed to capture and communicate progress in this area. To provide an overview of these dashboards and their characteristics, an extensive survey was conducted, resulting in the identification of over 60 dashboards. To support a detailed and structured description, a dedicated metadata schema was developed, and the identified dashboards were systematically indexed accordingly. We provide an openly reusable dataset and an interoperable metadata schema that enable comparative and longitudinal analyses of Open Access dashboards across regions and operator types, and we invite the community to reuse, extend, and refine them. The dataset is particularly relevant for researchers in Library and Information Science and Science and Technology Studies, supporting both empirical analyses of Open Access and the methodological refinement of indicators and policy instruments in the context of Open Science.