[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access 2014: 30 indicators of growth beyond the ordinary

[Heather Morrison]

The 2014 year end Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available. Highlighted are 30 indicators of growth beyond the background growth of scholarly works per se - in many cases, far beyond:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2014/12/2014-dramatic-growth-of-open-access-30.html

OA advocates are encouraged to refocus on the vision of OA in 2015 - the real goal of an unprecedented public good which is all too easy to forget in the minutiae of implementation. 

Although the DGOA series focuses on the numbers, a special mention goes out to India's recent OA policy announcement as a new model for the world - including the best of funding agency policy to date plus the important inclusion of the Declaration on Research Assessment, the instruction to evaluators to focus on the quality of scholarly works and ignore the substitutes like impact factor.

A Happy OA for 2015 to all!

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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