<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <br><div><br></div><div>Since preprints can be hard to discover sometimes, I wanted to alert you to a preprint we just posted about OA.  It is the largest, most comprehensive analysis ever to predict the future of Open Access.  <b>Given existing trends, we estimate that by 2025:</b></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>44% of all journal articles will be available as OA</b></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>70% of all article views will be to OA articles</b></li></ul><div>We&#39;ve got a few blog posts up summarizing and highlighting the findings: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.ourresearch.org%2Ffuture-of-oa%2F&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C22513beed497417c3b7808d74da62ae7%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=MPwiTpDrqkChhaO0EqV8hozC1E7n55EkyXcYP5Rc%2FuI%3D&amp;reserved=0" originalSrc="https://blog.ourresearch.org/future-of-oa/" shash="DRoAR/yePw7Rz78kf/plVd3tzOELyYLwMPqQy7uXh/Ng+LcHCCNEuZkEiWQbljzhgZG9wQRJYhkMTlo8ySmxBkpMsOAAEgZk9Bl2tekk4KfAVJdPrRNMPQuxY6COo/8yozHGRBCp9yyP3Zfk3MeylGDA3klHgjLLrTwIcC3TumE=" target="_blank">https://blog.ourresearch.org/future-of-oa/</a> (links to more at bottom of first post), and here&#39;s the citation: </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Piwowar, Priem, Orr (2019) The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership. bioRxiv: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/795310" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1101/795310</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Love to hear your feedback!</div><div>Heather</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">--<br></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Heather Piwowar, cofounder</span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Four-research.org%2F&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C22513beed497417c3b7808d74da62ae7%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=%2F953sN%2FFeCubvJpzderatacrLHzN4S0xIo8NKu6buUo%3D&amp;reserved=0" originalSrc="https://our-research.org/" shash="YosyqNnVyOQWwW6Cu0fLPlBEegj6ioa/xOot7Bds4DFjuje6a0ALL6+UrX7R7SGWtNZMix22dTGb7BMr+ZxNHRUHv1nCtABc+mQCbGYQeVPdDfNVb00ymMRL3pQHDZHJBLt2ZNy/K92SxAyiIw7v+MQU33i3HsuBTHsQ7ncjpbo=" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Our Research</a>: We build tools to make scholarly research more open, connected, and reusable—for everyone.</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">follow at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fresearchremix&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C22513beed497417c3b7808d74da62ae7%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=VfxgG40RxXF8I8jUp0DHUIwXkHglPCw9it6c2njHinM%3D&amp;reserved=0" originalSrc="https://twitter.com/researchremix" shash="JppaHRwVrlImMtetP+6YC7HYabV13DNA0RewWXrMZD4rF5pwhnkQ+Q701vwIfofNUrCpoq38RlKmbzk3Rg9Y0mBbIrdE7NbschxtTCZW7nXnTnCXzMfl6Ah4KwqWIrKcfZnk7y5XuPyVTlzf3wWA043s/O+waPJfxGkrAJg4jvs=" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc">@r</font>esearchremix</a>, <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Four_research&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C22513beed497417c3b7808d74da62ae7%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=nOWVjn4gUKvQfPL0My0OESmGwASkM9DhV%2Bhf4cbaQA8%3D&amp;reserved=0" originalSrc="https://twitter.com/our_research" shash="g2WgIV4jhZfH9fKGOhbMcDpysr+DU0jO4H6xnMpu1aAb//8GrDlp0HytkDSEouLf5DvEzGQn2/qP08PoHMj1AqAzgoIav4Kq8+pkHmmiE06xacNLpGB3FU19JMOGLtMONQcH04UZnCdFnDalZk5W27ZiJA0XNP7xt3lk38m2PWQ=" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">@our_research</a>, and @<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Funpaywall&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C22513beed497417c3b7808d74da62ae7%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=SODsY7Y%2Bdp0Z6u%2FwhHpVjHoUmPgW9UpBk7BKEj3RvL4%3D&amp;reserved=0" originalSrc="https://twitter.com/unpaywall" shash="WqQLsB/zf165DOKMMKNvROHpgzEGPOCTcM6omhvqRMlCDeNbvkg2uEvPMk5bFYKU8ZwcVdTSclqBmWOwpLTA4rF/P0MqA1vMyXtmIgsUlaOO3sRUxg4g1hXLoBE4Khsz6g3/arRUjJuiyxdGOBEqBMb9emzzOVJCwmd7/UKN444=" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">unpaywall</a></div></div></div></div>