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[Heather Morrison <hgmorris@sfu.ca>]

The March 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now
available:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-=
march-31.html

Highlights

The most amazing growth story of the first quarter of 2011 is
that of Mendeley, jumping half a million articles downloadable
for free, from 300,000 to 800,000, growth of 171% in just one
quarter!! Since Mendeley is a DIY tool for researchers, this
amazing growth illustrates that there is a considerable appetite
for self-archiving, once the researcher has a service that
appeals to them. Analysis this quarter focuses on the strong
growth rate of so many open access initiatives in comparison to
the overall 3-3.5% average growth of scholarly articles and
journals. Data is presented that strongly suggests that the
success rate for open access journals is already higher than that
of subscription journals in this and a related post, Those Active
Open Access Journals!. Congratulations to DOAJ for announcing the
DOAJ new interface - and surpassing the milestone of more than
half a million articles available through the DOAJ article
search! As DOAJ's Anna-Lena Johannson expresses it: DOAJ now has
more than 6,300 journals, more than 100 countries, over 50
languages, and more than 2,500 journals providing metadata at
article level. . Another indication of the international reach of
the open access movement from Katarina Lovrecic; there are 133 OA
journals in Croatia, and 129 or 97% of the journals in the
Croatian portal are open access. An additional 47 journals
are actively participating in PubMedCentral; the growth for
journals in PMC providing immediate free access is 40, and the
full open access PMC journal growth rate is 33. This issue of the
Dramatic Growth of Open Access introduces two new features for
the very busy - a quick numbers section, and a quick reference
edition.

Quick Numbers

# of open access journals (DOAJ): over 6,000. Growth rate: 4 per
day. # of freely available journals (Electronic Journals
Library): over 28,000. Growth rate: 10 per day. # of open access
repositories: close to 2,000 (OpenDOAR). Growth rate: 1 per day.
# of documents freely available (BASE): 25 million. Growth rate:
6,000 per day. # of open access mandate policies (ROARMAP): 271.
Growth rate: 1 per week or 5 per month. % of world's scholarly
literature that is freely available: 20% (Bjork et al)

For a bit more detail, see the Quick Reference: The Quick Reference is available for downloading as PDF or
Excel from the SFU IR: http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/11499

Another post that may be of interest: Those ACTIVE open access
journals - data from Ulrich's which strongly suggests that OA
journals are MORE likely to be active after a bit than the
journals of major commercial publishers.

best,

Heather Morrison, MLIS Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser
University School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/ The Imaginary Journal
of Poetic Economics http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com


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