[GOAL] Happy 2012 Open Access Movement!

[Heather Morrison]

The December 31, 2011 issue of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access is  
now available at:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-2012-open-access-movement.html

Highlights

There are over 7,000 peer-reviewed fully open access journals as  
listed in the DOAJ, still growing by 4 titles per day and over 6,000  
of these are in English, as listed by Open J-Gate. Electronic Journals  
Library keeps track of more than 32,000 free journals. There are over  
2,000 repositories, linking to more than 30 million items, growing at  
the rate of 21 thousand items per day, which can be searched through  
the snazzy new Bielefeld Academic Search Engine search options. PLoS  
ONE, having become the world's largest journal last year, outdid  
themselves by doubling the number of articles published this year.   
PubMedCentral, arXiv, RePEC, and E-LIS growth was in the 10-15% range  
for the year. This issue of Dramatic Growth adds a new feature, a  
first attempt at comparing compliance rates with a few medical  
funders' open access policies - so far, Wellcome Trust is looking good!

best,

Heather Morrison
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