Post-pandemic changes in the adoption of OA models - a case study on Covid-19 and cancer research

During the Covid-19 pandemic many publishers granted free access to research publications, most often in the form of temporary Bronze open access (OA). It remains unclear how stable such shifts in adoptions of certain OA models during the pandemic are, and whether they apply to Covid-19-related and -unrelated fields to varying extents. We compare the OA statuses and these statuses’ consistency across two Web of Science snapshots from April 2022 and April 2023 for sets of Covid-19 and cancer-related research articles that were published in 2020 and 2021. First results indicate noteworthy differences between both groups’ developments regarding frequent OA models.