Dramatic Growth of Open Access: June 30, 2009

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

The June 30 edition of my Dramatic Growth of Open Access series 
is now available.

Highlights

Growth in open access policies was highly significant this 
quarter; the number of departmental policies in particular, 
doubled in the last few months from 6 to 13. There are now well 
over a hundred open access policies, and many more in the works, 
such as the recently re- introduced U.S. Federal Research Public 
Access Act (FRPAA). PLoS One is now one of the world's largest 
journals, anticipating publication of 4,800 articles in 2009 - 
and more in 2010; PLoS One may well become THE largest journal 
sometime in 2010. DOAJ added 253 journals; OpenDOAR and OAIster 
each added 43 new repositories, for a total of over 1,400 
repositories facilitating access to about 22-27 million items, a 
distributed collection growing by at least 17,000 items per day. 
Both free and open access are growing steadily at PubMedCentral; 
the percentage of publications based on NIH-funded research that 
are freely available within 2 years of publication is up to 35%. 
Watch for this percentage to grow over the coming year as more 
articles pass the maximum 12-month embargo allowed under the 
policy which came into effect April 2008. 98 more journals are 
making articles not just freely accessible, but open access, this 
quarter in PubMedCentral, for a total of 398 OA journals in PMC.

For details and links to viewable and downloadable open data 
editions, see: 
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/06/dramatic-growth-of-open- 
access-june-30.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