<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2012-08-03, at 4:53 PM, Sally Morris wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="899174720-03082012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I find this figure very surprising. What appears to be
the same search,</font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="899174720-03082012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">carried out this past March, came up with a (to me) much more
credible</font></span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="899174720-03082012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">figure of 27,566.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I found it surprising too. That's why I'm asking others who have </div><div>access to Ulrichs to repeat the search and let us know.</div><div><br></div><div>Stevan</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>
[mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stevan
Harnad<br><b>Sent:</b> 03 August 2012 20:08<br><b>To:</b> Global Open Access
List (Successor of AmSci)<br><b>Cc:</b> LibLicense-L Discussion
Forum<br><b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of
active peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311<br></font><br></div>
<div></div>For years now, I've just been re-using an old <a href="http://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com/">Ulrich</a>'s estimate of about
<b>25,000</b> for the total number of active peer-reviewed journals.
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<div>Prompted by a recent query from someone, I've checked again, and -- unless
I've made a mistake in my search -- the number now seems to have doubled to
<b>55,311</b>.</div>
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<div>The parameters I used to get this figure were (1) Active, (2) Journal, (3)
Academic/Scholarly, (4) Refereed/Peer-reviewed, </div>
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<div>A further breakdown shows that of these <b>55,311</b> active peer reviewed
journals,</div>
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<div><b>23,527</b> (<i><u>43%</u></i>) are available online</div>
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<div><b>9,354</b> (<i><u>17%</u></i>) are indexed in Thomson-Reuters-ISI's
Journal Citation reports</div>
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<div><b>6,962</b> (<i><u>13%</u></i>) are open access journals (freely available
online) (Gold OA, presumably not including Hybrid Gold).</div>
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<div><b>769</b> (<i><u>11%</u></i>) of the
9,354 Thomson-Reuters-ISI-indexed journals are open access journals</div>
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<div>According to the last estimate of journals indexed by SHERPA/ROMEO (which
does not include all the journals indexed by Ulrichs, but does include most of
the top journals indexed by Thomson-Reuters-ISI):</div>
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<div><i><u>60%</u></i> of journals recognize the author's right to provide
immediate, un-embargoed open access upon self-archiving their final drafts in
their institutional repositories.</div>
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<div>It would be helpful if others could check and confirm these figures.</div>
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<div>Stevan Harnad</div></div>
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