Progress of HEAL-Link Open Access Programs
The Scholarly Communication Unit of HEAL-Link, every quarter since September 2020 has been publishing reports of the HEAL-Link OA Agreements, to regularly assess their course and update the strategy and plans of HEAL-Link.
Current year - 2025
The year 2025 is a transitional year for the Agreements, and for that it is examined individually.
2022-2024 Period
The three-year period 2022-2024 was the second period in which the Open Access element was implemented into the agreements of HEAL-Link, with the collaborating publishers and scientific institutions. In this three-year period, there were more publishers who provided full cost coverage to the researchers. The three-year report presents the progress and performance of HEAL-Link's programs for this period.
2019-2021 Period
The three-year period 2019-2021 was the first period in which the Open Access element was incorporated into the agreements of HEAL-Link, with its collaborating publishers and scientific institutions. The three-year report presents the progress and performance of HEAL-Link's programs for this period. The report can also be found in a concise printable format.
SCOAP3
EESC also publishes special reports, for the SCOAP3 program, in which HEAL-Link participates. SCOAP3 is the consortium that supports the open publication of articles in gold or hybrid scientific journals. Each country/member participates in the SCOAP3 budget with an amount that has resulted from an appropriate algorithm, which was developed in the research stage of the project and which takes into account the number of research publications of each country/member in the field of High-Energy Physics.
All reports are provided in greek.
COVID-19
Two studies on the publishing output of Greek researchers on the coronavirus have been published by the Branch.
COVID-19: open access to Greek publications: A Greek presentation for the publications of Greek Researchers about the coronavirus</a> was made in the digital two-day conference of the Athena RC “COVID-19: good practices, tools, and contact points in Greece.” The study uses data from the first ten days of October 2020 from Scopus and Unpaywall.</li>
Publications by Greek Researchers on COVID-19: A report with articles of Greek researchers concerning the new coronavirus (Covid-19). This report is based on data from the COVID-19 Dataset of Global Research of the Dimensions database (Digital Science & Research Solutions Inc) and it was created using Google’s BigQuery and DataStudio tools.