This year, the theme of International Open Access week 2022 is ‘Open for Climate Justice‘. In keeping with this message, the Open Research team decided to open up some of the data the University of West London (UWL) holds on its research and scholarship outputs and how these support key U.N sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The University first of all recognises the importance of delivering sustainability across its work, including in teaching and operations as well as research. UWL has stated its committment to engaging with the U.N SDGs which are 17 agreed goals covering social, environmental and economic sustainability objectives that need to be delivered at global scale. The University has so far adopted seven SDGs as part of its Environmental Sustainability Strategy which will be used to drive activity by 2030 as a way of focusing efforts on issues of significance to students, staff and stakeholders.
The seven key sustainable development goals in question are as follows:
1. Zero Hunger (SDG 2)
2. Good Health and Well-being (SDG 3)
3. Quality Education (SDG 4)
4. and Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8)
5. Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
6. Sustainable Use of Resources (SDG 11)
7. Climate Action (SDG 13)
To gain further insight into how research and scholarship was spread across these areas, the Open Research team used its subscription to Altmetric Explorer, a tool whose mission is to more responsibly monitor the reach of scholarly content through indicative engagement, to make sense of the data. You can read more about how Altmetric tracks outputs and the sustainable developement goals classification system developed in partnership with Dimensions data by following the links in this blog post.
UWL Resarch and Scholarship by Open Access type
The figure below shows UWL research and scholarship outputs with a unique identifier (e.g. DOI, ISBN or handle) that identify at least one of the seven key SDGs adopted by the University and their breakdown by open access type*.
* Open Access definitions
The table below shows the list of definitions for each type of Open Access (“OA”) as used by Altmetric and Dimensions:
|
OA type |
Definition |
Technical description |
|
Gold |
Publication published in a full Open Access journal. |
Unpaywall=Gold OR source title is on Dimensions’ full Open Access source title list |
|
Hybrid |
Publication freely available under an open licence in a paid-access journal |
Unpaywall=Hybrid |
|
Bronze |
Document freely available on publisher page, but without an open licence and not in a full Open Access journal |
Unpaywall=Bronze |
|
Green |
Free copy of the publication available in an Open Access repository. |
Unpaywall=Green OR Publication type in Dimensions is ‘Preprint’ |
|
Closed Access |
No freely available copy has been identified. |
All publications which are neither, Gold, Green, Hybrid nor Bronze |
UWL Resarch and Scholarship by department or school
The figure below shows UWL research and scholarship outputs with a unique identifier (e.g. DOI, ISBN or handle) that identify at least one of the seven key SDGs adopted by the University and their breakdown by department/school.
Data availability statement
You can access a full copy of the source data for this blog post, on request at the following link: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/9575/