Re: Dramatic Growth of Open Access

[Selma Aslan <selmaslan@yahoo.co.uk>]

Nice to observe such a growth. However, in multilingual services 
it has become a need to be able to refine search results by 
language, or be able to add language to search criteria.  For 
instance in DOAJ I don't want to be loaded with articles in 
various languages I will not be able to read and frankly 
speaking, this puts me off. The same applies to OAPEN which 
contains 1000 monographs from European universities in social 
sciences and humanities.

best,

Selma Aslan
TOBB ETU, Turkey


From: Heather Morrison <hgmorris@sfu.ca>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Sent: Sat, 2 April, 2011 5:06:35
Subject: Dramatic Growth of Open Access and those ACTIVE open 
access journals

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 Hroak 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: 
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apn66wofwO7adHUtWGRhbmtfZHV3SEhXcnE0b1JuUXc&hl=en #gid=0 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