with apologies for cross-posting ~The September 2010 edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available.
Highlights: DOAJ is now at 5,452 titles, and is adding 3 titles per dayA BASE search of repositories worldwide encompasses more than 25 million items, growing at 8,000 documents per day 960 journals are voluntarily participating in PubMedCentral; the growth rate is about a title per day
This issue asks the deliberately evocative question of whether we can now, or soon will be able to, compare open access with subscription resources on a numerical basis. For example, there are now at least four free or open access journal collections with more than twice the number of titles of the world's largest commercial publisher.
Full details and links to downloadable or viewable data are available from:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD Student, SFU School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com