[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

[Heather Morrison]

The third quarter Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available. There will be plenty to celebrate for this year’s open access week!

Highlights:

Globally OA repository contents have exceeded a milestone of over 100 million documents as indirectly measured by a BASE meta-search. This dispersed collection is now an order of magnitude larger than Science Direct!

Despite a vigorous weeding and new get-tough inclusion policy, DOAJ articles searchable at article level grew by about a quarter million this past year, and DOAJ is now adding titles at the rate of 1.5 per day. OpenDOAR added new repositories at almost exactly the same rate as DOAJ added journal titles. 

Internet Archive now has over 3 million audio recordings. There are over 2,000 more OA books and 161 more publishers in DOAB than there were a year ago.

PubMedCentral continues to show strong growth in every measure: more journals actively participating, more providing immediate free access, all articles open access, some articles open access.

Details and links: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2016/10/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html

To download the data: https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/dgoa

best,

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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