 open access publication open access publication 46 admin mon 10142019 1830 number and percentage of open access publications differentiating between green and gold open access when possible the indicator informs about the committment of the initiative towards transparency by faciliting the transference and openess of their research results and making them accesible to the general public additional quantitative open access  idea of making research results freely available to anyone who wants to access and reuse them eg for full text mining morri  gold open access   publications in oa journals morri  green open access  publications in oa selfarchiving databases morri initiative project scientific report classification of journals with open access options such as doaj list directory of open access journals pmc pubmed central the road list directory of open access scholarly resources crossref and openaire for the number of open access articles count the number of open access scientific articles total gold green published during the reporting period by the initiative project for the sake of comparison the initiative project shall report the same figure for the two prior reporting periods for the percentage of open access articles divide the total number of open access scientific articles total gold green by the total number of publications during the reporting period and multiply the result times 100 number in physical units percentage with numerator and denominator output number of articles percentage annually annually when interpreting this indicator users need to consider that publication fees may prevent publishing in open access journals the possibilities of publishing in open access varies across research topics number of oa journals therefore some initiatives projects might have low or null values in this indicator due to the difficulties mentioned above the data can be provided in a graphic see example yes for the share of oa publications in europe extract from morri the evolution of responsible research and innovation in europe the morri indicators report p 64 available at  https wwwrritoolseu theevolutionofresponsibleresearchandinnovationineu the example provided is not specific of health research initiatives but it can be adapted to their scope publications 