[GOAL] June 30 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

[Heather Morrison]

Just released - the June 30, 2012 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/07/inevitability-of-open-access-june-30.html

Highlights:

The most comprehensive search engine for open access archives, The  
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), now searches more than 36  
million documents. There are technical reasons why it is difficult to  
deduce the exact number of open access articles. However, some of the  
numbers from individual repositories suggest that a number approaching  
the BASE total are possible: PubMed connects with over 3.5 million  
documents; arXiv, 750,000; Social Sciences Research Network 350,000;  
and RePEC, over a million – that’s over 5.5 million documents from  
these 4 archives alone – and there are more than 2,000 open access  
archives around the world! DOAJ now has just under 8,000 titles, and  
is adding at a rate of 3 per day, and the newly launched Directory of  
Open Access Books already lists more than a thousand titles from 27  
contributing publishers.  The Electronic Journals Library lists over  
35,000 journals of interest to academics that are freely available,  
and is adding 15 titles per day. The Internet Archive provides access  
to 670,000 movies, 100,000 concerts, 1.3 million audio recordings, and  
3.5 million texts. No wonder that even open access opponents are now  
agreeing that OA is inevitable, and detailed by Stuart Shieber!

Heather Morrison

http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/