[GOAL] March 31 2016 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

[Heather Morrison]

… is now available for:

reading: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2016/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-march-31.html

open data downloading: http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/dgoa

Really brief highlights:

Over 150 publishers of peer-reviewed open access books in Directory of Open Access Books.

DOAJ’s strongest growth quarter to date - average of over 6 titles (net) per day.

The repositories contributing metadata to the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine collectively grew by over 4.7 million documents for a total of close to 89 million documents.

PubMed is falling behind on indexing due to a transition to automated indexing - no serious consequences with respect to this series, but here’s hoping they catch up really soon as a lot of people rely on this index for medical information.

PubMedCentral continues to grow in journal participation, journals with immediate free access, and journals with all content open access.


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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