2019 Charleston Library Conference

Sponsored by Web of Science

Web of Science is the world’s most authoritative resource for search and discovery within scientific and scholarly literature. However, it has always provided more than the search alone.

More recently, through a partnership with Impactstory, now Our Research, Web of Science provides article-level detail across 34,000 journals for about 12.8 million items identified as existing in an Open Access status, along with links to this OA full text. Not only does this make access to free, legal article PDFs simple for faculty, researchers, and students, but it also enables librarians to do analysis of Open Access content associated with institutions.

Here, we will use Web of Science and InCites Benchmarking & Analytics to analyze the citation impact of Open Access content from a university. We’ll look at this from a variety of perspectives, faculty authored OA content associated with disciplines and funders for example. Gain insight into just how libraries can use these data to understand institutional support of Open Access initiatives and the presence of OA content within their journal collections.