National Action Plan on Open Government Commitment

C01.3.1 - Climate Change and Sustainable Growth

Commitment:
Climate Change and Sustainable Growth
Milestone:
Making climate change science more open and accessible
Indicator:
C01.3.1 - New metric to be designed and included in yearly reports to assess open access of climate change science publication using data from an abstract and citation database
Lead Organization:
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Deadline:
By June 2022
Summit for Democracy:
No

Updates

2023-09
Status:
Complete
Evidence of progress:

Metric has been designed and bibliometrics report for reporting year 2022 (containing data up to year 2020) has been finalized and approved. Bibliometrics report for reporting year 2022 is now available online.

Bibliometrics report for reporting year 2023 (containing data up to year 2022) has been drafted and is undergoing review.

Evidence:
2023-06
Status:
Substantial progress
Evidence of progress:

Metric has been designed and bibliometrics report containing data up to year 2020 has been finalized and approved.

Evidence:

Bibliometrics report with data up to year 2020 is now with ECCC Creative Services being formatted for publication. The report will be posted online on the new Federal Open Science Repository of Canada: https://open-science.canada.ca/home

ECCC is gathering data for years 2021 and 2022 and will publish an updated report in fall 2023.

2023-03
Status:
Substantial progress
Evidence of progress:

Metric has been designed and bibliometrics report has been drafted.

Evidence:

Federal science-based departments and agencies have been consulted on the bibliometric report, which is now awaiting final approval. Once approved and translated, it will be posted online.

2022-12
Status:
Substantial progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Set up bibliometrics contract (started in Q4 of Fiscal Year 2021-22)
  • Designed metric to assess open access of climate change science publications
  • Identified key data metrics for the assessment of open access to climate change science publications
  • Identified an abstract and citation database (Web of Science) from which to gather data for identified metrics
  • Gathered data
Evidence:

Materials are being finalized and will be published in Q3 (October to December 2022)

2022-09
Status:
Substantial progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Set up bibliometrics contract (started in Q4 of Fiscal Year 2021-22)
  • Designed metric to assess open access of climate change science publications
  • Identified key data metrics for the assessment of open access to climate change science publications
  • Identified an abstract and citation database (Web of Science) from which to gather data for identified metrics
  • Gathered data
Evidence:

Materials are being finalized and will be published in Q3 (October to December 2022)

2022-06
Status:
Substantial progress
Evidence of progress:
  • Set up bibliometrics contract (started in Q4 of Fiscal Year 2021-22
  • Designed metric to assess open access of climate change science publications
  • Identified key data metrics for the assessment of open access to climate change science publications
  • Identified an abstract and citation database (Web of Science) from which to gather data for identified metrics
  • Gathered data
Evidence:

Materials are being finalized and will be published in Q3 (October to December 2022)

2022-03
Status:
Substantial progress