[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access first quarter 2015

[Heather Morrison]

The first quarter Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-2015.html

Selected highlights

OpenDOAR added 129 repositories for a total of 2,857 open access repositories. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine added close to 3 million documents for a total of over 71 million documents. SSRN added another 7,690 authors this quarter for a total of over 275,000 authors. Internet Archive added 1.7 million texts for a total of over 7.8 million.

In spite of vigorous weeding and reorganizing, DOAJ is back to ongoing strong growth, adding close to 3 journals per day, over a quarter million articles searchable at the article level over the past year. 

Congratulations to the Directory of Open Access Books which recently surpassed a milestone of 100 publishers. 

Data is openly available for download from the DGOA dataverse:
http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/dgoa

Congratulations and thanks to all of the many individuals and organizations that are making open access happen.

-- 
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
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca