[LIS-Forum] Fw: March 31 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

Subbiah Arunachalam subbiah_a at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 2 15:14:32 IST 2010


Friends:

Here is a message I just received from Ms Heather Morrison, Vancouver, Canada. I thought it would be of interest to
many of you, especially those in academia and research institutions. 





From: Heather Morrison <hgmorris at SFU.CA>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Sent: Thu, 1 April, 2010 12:26:33
Subject: March 31 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

I just released the March 31, 2010 Dramatic Growth of Open Access.

Highlights:

DOAJ is now at 4,863 journals, having added a net total of 864
journals in the past year for a DOAJ growth rate of over 2 titles per
day. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine now searches over 23 million
documents; this is an increase of over 1.2 million in the last
quarter, or over 13,000 documents per day. There are now more than 200
open access mandate policies listed in ROARMAP, with strong growth in
every category. Compliance with the U.S. National Institutes of Health
Public Access Policy is 62% - still not 100%, but definitely getting
closer. In the past year,120 more journals began contributing all
content as open access to PubMedCentral. There are now more than 5,000
journals around the world using Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Details and links can be found at:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-march-31.html

Heather Morrison, MLIS
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/





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