RE: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

["Ahmed Hindawi" <ahmed@hindawi.com>]

Sally:

Correct me if I am wrong, but these numbers do not correspond to 
the increase of OA journals in every year listed. For example, 
our "Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology" was launched in 
2001 and hence is counted among the 266 peak of 2001. However, 
the journal was converted from toll access to open access only in 
2004. If you want to know by how many OA journals increase every 
year, you should count it with 2004, not with 2001. I am sure 
many, many journal are just like that.

If 300 journals get converted to OA in 2006, they will not create 
a peak in 2006 in the DOAJ data, because they will be listed with 
their launch years, not with their OA conversion year.

Ahmed Hindawi

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Subject: Re: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

I've redone my analysis of the rate of launches of new journals
listed in DOAJ, based on the newly increased total

Interestingly, although the subsequent decline is less steep, the 
peak in 2001 is still very evident.  While it is possible that 
new journals take a while to get around to notifying DOAJ of 
their existence, I'm not convinced that this entirely explains 
the shape of the graph.

The figures are as follows (I have ignored launches before 1980,
which were few and sporadic, and - obviously - the 2006 figure):

        1980 4       1981 5
        1982 2
        1983 5
        1984 2
        1985 1
        1986 3
        1987 2
        1988 4
        1989 2
        1990 13
        1991 7
        1992 10
        1993 22
        1994 29
        1995 69
        1996 113
        1997 148
        1998 138
        1999 122
        2000 222
        2001 266
        2002 226
        2003 218
        2004 217
        2005 131

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org