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Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 2010



with apologies for cross-posting

The September 2010 edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access 
is now available.

Highlights:

DOAJ is now at 5,452 titles, and is adding 3 titles per day A 
BASE search of repositories worldwide encompasses more than 25 
million items, growing at 8,000 documents per day 960 journals 
are voluntarily participating in PubMedCentral; the growth rate 
is about a title per day

This issue asks the deliberately evocative question of whether we 
can now, or soon will be able to, compare open access with 
subscription resources on a numerical basis.  For example, there 
are now at least four free or open access journal collections 
with more than twice the number of titles of the world's largest 
commercial publisher.

Full details and links to downloadable or viewable data are 
available from: 
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html

Heather Morrison, MLIS
PhD Student, SFU School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com