[GOAL] Re: Media research analyst at Exane BNP Paribas Sami Kassab on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done?

[Heather Morrison]

Andrew raises a good point about mixing apples and oranges.

There are more than 2,000 open access archives/repositories around the globe, containing millions of documents (about 50 million, based on stats from the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine). 

Similarly there are close to 10 thousand open access journals, published in more than a hundred countries. Bohannon's data does indicate some of these journals are problematic, but the evidence suggests a very small percentage (157 journals accepting a hoax article represents about 1.5%). Since the journals were selected using a list of predatory journals, there is no reason to think that this data is generalizable.

best,

Heather Morrison

On 2013-10-07, at 8:00 AM, "Andrew A. Adams" <aaa at meiji.ac.jp> wrote:

> RIchard Poynder quotes Sami Kassab from an interview:
>> The same goes for institutions. Elsevier has over 4,000 institutional
>> clients around the globe. Less than 300 institutions have signed OA
>> mandates worldwide. In contrast, MOOCs have taken the higher education
>> world by storm with hundreds of institutions experimenting with MOOCs
>> within a few months.
> 
> Hmm, something of a apples and oranges comparison here. Experimenting with 
> MOOCs could better be likened to having an institutional repository into 
> which staff members are allowed to deposit articles, rather than the adoption 
> of a strong deposit mandate. I know of no University that has required the 
> development of any MOOC (it's one of my areas of research). So far, the MOOCs 
> on offer are those produced by the early enthusiasts for teaching innovation, 
> at similar proportions (a tiny percentage of all staff) who voluntarily 
> deposited their papers in the early days of OA.
> 
> 
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> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
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