Re: Journals > Peer-Reviewed Journals > Open-Access Journals < Open Access

["Sally Morris" <sec-gen@alpsp.org>]

I would question Stevan's estimate that 2.5% of articles are published in
OA journals.  While it does indeed look as if 2 - 2.5% of peer reviewed
journals are OA (that is, if all those listed by Lund et al are peer
reviewed), I very much doubt that they carry as many articles as the rest.
This is because OA journals are, almost without exception, relatively new
and extremely long-established journals tend to be far, far, bigger in
terms of issues and articles published per year.

Sally

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "American Scientist Open Access Forum"
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:18 AM
Subject: Journals > Peer-Reviewed Journals > Open-Access Journals < Open
Access

> Bowker's Ulrichsweb http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/ indexes about
> 250,000 serials. Of those 250,000 serials about 10% (24,000) are
> peer-reviewed journals. Of those 24,000 about 2.5% (600) are indexed by
> The Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ which indexes
> only peer-reviewed journals.

[SNIP]