[cla-oa] Dramatic Growth of Open Access and those ACTIVE open access journals
- From: Heather Morrison <heatherm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: CACUL-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, cla-oa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:59:28 -0700
The March 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-march-31.html
Highlights
The most amazing growth story of the first quarter of 2011 is that of
Mendeley, jumping half a million articles downloadable for free, from
300,000 to 800,000, growth of 171% in just one quarter!! Since
Mendeley is a DIY tool for researchers, this amazing growth
illustrates that there is a considerable appetite for self-archiving,
once the researcher has a service that appeals to them. Analysis this
quarter focuses on the strong growth rate of so many open access
initiatives in comparison to the overall 3-3.5% average growth of
scholarly articles and journals. Data is presented that strongly
suggests that the success rate for open access journals is already
higher than that of subscription journals in this and a related post,
Those Active Open Access Journals!. Congratulations to DOAJ for
announcing the DOAJ new interface - and surpassing the milestone of
more than half a million articles available through the DOAJ article
search! As DOAJ's Anna-Lena Johannson expresses it: DOAJ now has more
than 6,300 journals, more than 100 countries, over 50 languages, and
more than 2,500 journals providing metadata at article level. .
Another indication of the international reach of the open access
movement from Katarina Lovrecic; there are 133 OA journals in Croatia,
and 129 or 97% of the journals in the Croatian Hrčak portal are open
access. An additional 47 journals are actively participating in
PubMedCentral; the growth for journals in PMC providing immediate free
access is 40, and the full open access PMC journal growth rate is 33.
This issue of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access introduces two new
features for the very busy - a quick numbers section, and a quick
reference edition.
Quick Numbers
# of open access journals (DOAJ): over 6,000. Growth rate: 4 per day.
# of freely available journals (Electronic Journals Library): over
28,000. Growth rate: 10 per day.
# of open access repositories: close to 2,000 (OpenDOAR). Growth rate:
1 per day.
# of documents freely available (BASE): 25 million. Growth rate: 6,000
per day.
# of open access mandate policies (ROARMAP): 271. Growth rate: 1 per
week or 5 per month.
% of world's scholarly literature that is freely available: 20% (Bjork
et al)
For a bit more detail, see the Quick Reference:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apn66wofwO7adHUtWGRhbmtfZHV3SEhXcnE0b1JuUXc&hl=en
#gid=0
The Quick Reference is available for downloading as PDF or Excel from
the SFU IR:
http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/11499
Another post that may be of interest: Those ACTIVE open access
journals - data from Ulrich's which strongly suggests that OA journals
are MORE likely to be active after a bit than the journals of major
commercial publishers.
best,
Heather Morrison, MLIS
Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
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