GOAL Project – Report of the publication analysis

The GOAL project (Unlocking the Green Open Access PotentiaL in scholarly and professionaljournals in Switzerland), which is funded by swissuniversities, aims to negotiate guidelines for secondary publications (Green Open Access Policies) with editors of practice-oriented journals. Such journals are a key publication medium for members of universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education. As a first step, an analysis of the publication output of the largest universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education in Switzerland for the years 2020-2021 was carried out. The aim was to find out in which journals they publish most frequently. The data set complements the results of the publication analysis already prepared and published in 2020 as part of the OA-EASI (Open Access for Educational and Applied Sciences) project. This report describes the procedure of data collection for the years 20/21, their processing and the joint analysis of the data in the overall view from 2017-2021. A total of 5,925 journals can be found on the list, which will serve as the basis for the selection of candidates among the editors in the further course of the GOAL project. In general, the picture of a very diverse practice oriented publication culture is confirmed. The publications are distributed among many small, practice-oriented journals published in different languages of Switzerland