Re: potential positive spiral in transition to open access

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I would be interested in learning what them STM Ghetto is, why 
titles will survive in it and what is the difference between the 
ghetto and the real world.

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Szczepanski" <jan.szczepanski@ub.gu.se>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: potential positive spiral in transition to open access

> Spasmodically or not there are other ways to look at free
> e-journals.
>
> First: there are a world outside STM and peer reviewed 
> journals. The world's largest collection of free e-journals can 
> be found at Elektronische Zeitschriften- bibliothek (EZB) or in 
> English Electronic Journals Library
>
> http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/about.phtml?bibid=3DAAAAA&colors=3D7&=
> lang=3Den
>
> At the end of 2006 EZB had registred 13.071 open access 
> journals. That figure was in 2001, 2.312 green titles. About 
> 600% more.
>
> During the same time period the red titles have expanded from
> 8.184 to 16.059. About 100%. This is an indication that the
> positive spiral is more postive towards open access.
>
> In 2001 EZB had 78% red titles and 22% green ones. In 2006 56% 
> red titles and 44% green.
>
> Of course You will find even more spasmodical journals in EZB 
> but the bigger picture is that green titles are growing faster 
> and will within ten years be the way people expects a journal 
> to be. Red titles will of course survive within the commercial 
> STM-ghetto but not outside, in the real world.
>
> All figures are taken from the EZB Jahresbericht from 2006.
>
> http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/anwender/Jahresbericht_EZB_2006.pdf
>
> Jan Szczepanski
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