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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=412292516-06112012>Can anyone shed
light on the following apparent discrepancy:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=412292516-06112012>Laakso and Bjork (<A
href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/124">http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/124</A>)
give a figure for articles published in 2011 and indexed in Scopus - 11% in full
Gold journals, 0.7% in hybrid journals, and 5% in 'delayed OA' journals with a
delay of no more than 12 months [Stevan may not like the term, but I think
the rest of us understand it well enough, so let's not get into
that!]</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=412292516-06112012>Gargouri et al (<A
href="http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1206/1206.3664.pdf">http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1206/1206.3664.pdf</A>),
on the other hand, give a figure of just 1.2% articles published in 2010 via
Gold OA</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=412292516-06112012>Furthermore,
Gargouri et al give the percentage of 2010 articles available via Green OA
as 21.9% (2008 articles 20.6%). Bjork et al (<A
href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273">http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273</A>)
had a very different figure of 11.9% for articles published in
2008.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=412292516-06112012>I can't get my head
round the spectacular difference between the two sets of figures - can someone
please explain? I can't believe that inclusion/exclusion in Scopus can
possibly account for it. Am I missing something?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=412292516-06112012>Thanks</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=412292516-06112012>Sally</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sally Morris</FONT></DIV>
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