<p dir="ltr">Maybe The little number of electronic journals come from The limitation to first/principal editions, when electronic edition coul ne secondary.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best regards,<br>
Andrea Marchitelli</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Il giorno 04/ago/2012 22:10, "Stevan Harnad" <<a href="mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> ha scritto:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Ulrichs' current correct estimate of the total number of active<div> peer-reviewed academic/scholarly journals is <b>28,094</b>.<div><br></div><div>So the ball-park figure of <b>25K </b>we've been using for years </div>
<div>was not far from the truth.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks to Sally Morris and Serials Solutions.</div><div><br></div><div>I got a very slightly different figure -- <b>28,135</b> -- using the Ulrichs access from </div>
<div>McGill University, but re-doing the sub-totals and percentages as indicated </div><div>by Serials Solutions, I got:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Of these <b>28,135</b> active peer reviewed journals</div><div><br></div>
<div><b>TOTAL PEER-REVIEWED:</b></div><div><b>28,135</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>ISI-INDEXED:</b></div><div><b>9,268</b> (<i><u>33%</u></i>) of the <b>28,135 </b>are indexed in Thomson-Reuters-ISI's </div><div>Journal Citation reports</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>GOLD OA:</b></div><div><b>4,365</b> (<i><u>13%</u></i>) of the <b>28,135 </b>are open access journals (freely </div><div>available online) (<b>Gold OA</b>, presumably not including Hybrid Gold)</div>
<div>(DOAJ lists 8005 journals, but many may be either peer reviewed </div><div>or "exercise editorial quality control")</div><div><br></div><div><b>ISI-INDEXED GOLD OA:</b></div><div><b>741</b> (<u><i>8%</i></u>) of the <b>9,268</b> Thomson-Reuters-ISI-indexed journals </div>
<div>are <b>Gold OA</b> journals</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>ENDORSE GREEN OA:</b></div><div>By way of comparison, according to the last estimate of journals </div><div>indexed by SHERPA/ROMEO (which does not include all the journals </div>
<div>indexed by Ulrichs, but does include most of the top journals indexed </div><div>by Thomson-Reuters-ISI):</div><div><br></div><div><u><i>60%</i></u> of journals recognize the author's right to provide immediate, </div>
<div>un-embargoed open access upon self-archiving their final drafts </div><div>in their institutional repositories.</div><div><br></div><div>That means <i><u>60%</u></i> of all journal articles can be made <b>Green OA</b></div>
<div>immediately (no embargo) if all institutions mandate it.</div><div><br></div><div>I did come up with one anomaly, however. De-duping along the lines</div><div>recommended by Serials Solutions, the result was: </div>
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<br></div><div><b>AVAILABLE ONLINE:</b></div><div>only <b>3,659</b> (<u><i>14%</i></u>) of the <b>28,135 </b>are available online</div><div>(that strikes me as suspiciously low)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Stevan Harnad</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2012-08-04, at 2:45 PM, Sally Morris wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>Here's a response from Serials Solutions which should clarify the matter once and for all</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span></span></font> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span>Sally</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span></span></font> </div>
<div> </div><div align="left"><font face="Arial">Sally Morris</font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial">South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU</font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial">Tel: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%291903%20871286" value="+441903871286" target="_blank">+44 (0)1903 871286</a></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial">Email: <span> </span><a href="mailto:sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk</a></font></div><div>
</div><br><div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" align="left"><hr><font face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b><span> </span>Diven, Yvette [mailto:<a href="mailto:Yvette.Diven@serialssolutions.com" target="_blank">Yvette.Diven@serialssolutions.com</a>]<span> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>03 August 2012 22:01<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>Sally Morris<br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>RE: [GOAL] Update on Ulrichs estimate of total number of active peer-reviewed journals: 55, 311<br></font></div>
<div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt">From Serials Solutions…<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt">Dear Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt">As of 3 August 2012, the number of active peer-reviewed journals listed in Ulrichsweb is 28,094 titles. This figure represents a count of all Primary editions (most of which are print editions, but some are also electronic) of those titles.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt">The figure of 55,311 active peer-reviewed journals reflects the count of the number of all related format editions of the 28,094 active peer-reviewed journals. (For example, one of the 28,094 active peer-reviewed journals may have a primary print edition, an online edition, and also a CD-ROM edition for a total of 3 format editions.)<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt">Dr. Harnad’s search results reflect the current count across all journal format editions. It is possible to isolate (remove) the related editions from those search results by applying the Edition Type filter from the Search Results screen and selecting that filter’s ‘Primary’ option.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-size:11pt">We hope that this information is helpful.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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