[GOAL] September 30, 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

[Heather Morrison]

The September 30, 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available. This issue is a thank-you to the hard-working staff at U.S. PubMedCentral who have done so much to make OA happen - and are now on furlough. The question of the impact of the shutdown of the world's largest medical research funder and a major funder across the disciplines, the US government, is raised. It seems obvious that if the funds to conduct research slow or stop, the need for publication, whether toll or open access, will slow down in the coming months and years.

One highlight this month is the new DOAJ browse by publication charges, which makes it easy to see that about two-thirds of the journals listed in DOAJ do not charge article processing fees.

Details are available on The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics:
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best,

-- 
Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa

http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca