[GOAL] The unstoppable growth of high quality open access resources

[Heather Morrison]

The December 2013 early year-end edition of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access focuses on a few of the indicators that this dramatic growth features many high quality open access resources. For example, the number of PubMed searches that link to free full-text within 3 years of publication is now over 800,000 items, or 28% of the works indexed. PubMed is an index developed by the National Institutes of Health with a long-term and well-deserved reputation for quality - the NIH does not index junk! The number of journals actively participating in PubMedCentral increased by 215 this year, about one title per working day; there are now more than 1,000 journals participating in PubMed with all articles open access.

Congratulations are due to Public Library of Science on their 100,000th article, and to DOAJ for more than 10,000 journals - that's net, after a major weeding exercise this year.

The Internet Archive continues to amaze, having added more than 1.8 million texts for over 5 million freely available texts.

A Happy and well-deserved holiday and New Year to everyone in the open access movement! We already know that 2014 will be off to a strong start with the first discipline-wide full transition to open access, in particle physics publishing (SCOAP3) set to start on January 1st.

A special thanks to César Villamizar, research assistant and student at the University of Ottawa's School of Information Studies, for assistance with data capture and the chart for this issue of Dramatic Growth.

Blogpost:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-unstoppable-growth-of-high-quality.html

best,

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Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
613-562-5800 ext. 7634
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca<mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>


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