Re: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

That's odd - Lotte assured me that the 'start date' column (which 
I used) was when the journal went OA.  THough looking at it, that 
cannot be the case - there were no OA journals in 1911!

Lotte, can you confirm what this column does in fact mean?

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ahmed Hindawi" <ahmed@hindawi.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:48 AM
Subject: RE: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris
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> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:04 AM
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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