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

Fri Oct 7 15:40:16 BST 2016

Éric raises a good point. My numbers are intended solely as the best surrogate for global open access content. However I argue that the BASE data should be sufficient to at minimum raise serious doubts about an oft-quoted truism that there is no content in repositories.

An minimum this is 100 million free metadata records, a very useful resource for anyone who cannot afford Web of Science or Scopus, and a large percentage lead to highly quality open access works of various types. Some types of works are not the focus of gold OA. For example, I argue that it is repositories that are transitioning theses from very limited distribution  (a paper copy or two that libraries hesitate to lend) to a default of open access. OA gold fighting repositories for resources and policy support is not in the best interests of OA.

PLOS ONE was considered a smashing success when it became the world's largest journal at about 20,000 articles per year. It is time to not only acknowledge the growth of gold, impressive as it is, but also notice that there are OA archives with even more impressive numbers.

best,

Heather Morrison

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From: Éric Archambault <eric.archambault at science-metrix.com>
Date: 2016-10-07 9:47 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>
Subject: Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

Just a quick note.

The fact that BASE has more than 100 million "documents" is not such a meaningful information as they do not define "documents". My impression is that they are truly speaking about metadata records, not full-text documents as a large number of these records do not contain documents - so document is a misnomer. Scopus and WoS both have more than half a billion references compiled. This is also several order of magnitude greater than ScienceDirect but what is the value of that information as we are not comparing likes. ScienceDirect comprises full-text articles. How many are from peer-reviewed journals; are many such articles (deduplicated) are in BASE. This is the relevant statistics. Of course, extending this to monographs and conference proceedings full-text papers is also relevant, but we need to compare likes for likes.

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

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

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École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
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