Open Access Publications on the Rise According to French 2022 Open Science Index

The Ministry of Higher Education and Research has published the results of the Open Science 2022 barometer, which measured for the fourth consecutive year an increase in the rate of French scientific publications in open access. 67% of French scientific publications published in 2021 were open access in December 2022. This indicator has been steadily increasing since the creation of the index, with a gain of 5 points compared to the previous year and 29 points since 2018. 74% of doctoral theses defended in 2020 are open access, a figure that reaches 95% in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. 22% of French scientific publications that rely on the production of a dataset ensure its release or distribution.