Re: The Dramatic NET growth of open access

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

I am not suggesting that there not are a lot more OA journals but 
I do not think it is as dramatic as Heather suggests. Surely it 
is the number of articles that count? Do we know what percentage 
of articles are OA at publication? This is a nice research topic 
for someone who has a lot of time on their hands.

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:51 AM
Subject: The Dramatic NET growth of open access

> As discussed on Liblicense last week, there is to-and-fro in open
> access and subscriptions in these transitional times.
> Occasionally, a journal that is open access reverts to a
> subscriptions basis.
>
> Overall, however, the trend is very much from subscriptions to
> open access.
>
> The growth rate of 822 added titles to DOAJ in the past year,
> average growth rate of 2.25 titles per calendar day, is NET
> growth.  As Lars Bjornshauge reported last week, over the past
> few years DOAJ has weeded about 30 titles as they no longer fit
> the criteria for inclusion in DOAJ.  Any titles weeded before
> September 30, 2008, are NOT counted in the dramatic growth
> figures for DOAJ.
>
> The September 30 Dramatic Growth of Open Access series is
> available at:
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/09/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html
>
> Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone,
> and does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic
> Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.
>
> Heather Morrison, MLIS
> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com