| Summary: | Scientific output and scholarly content in general at the medical department of Kiel University is considered on the basis of open access publishing strategies. Since most of the scholarly output has already been published, bibliographic data of the branch library of the faculty of medicine are collected and analysed. The central question is whether the scholarly content can be published in open access pathways especially those of the Institutional Open Access Repository of Kiel University MACAU. For this purpose, corresponding authors had to be identified for each publication as they hold potential copyright. Taking into consideration that corresponding authors affiliated with Kiel University hold the copyright, the collected bibliographic data represent editions for which copyright is held by Kiel University Medical Faculty and Kiel University Hospital UKSH. A closer look at the data considered the publishers and citation rates of the scientific content. The citation data of the publications was monitored over a period of 5 years and correlated to measures taken in the DEAL project. Further analysis of the data raised the question whether the DEAL project and the boycott of Elsevier’s products had influence on which publishers scientists of Kiel University chose and how often the publications were cited between 2015 and 2019.
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