Friends: People often ask about the benefits of OA. Here is a case in point from India. The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Bombay) has become very popular ever since it became an OA journal, says Dr D K Sahu, a champion of OA in India. I wish the journals published by government agencies such as CSIR go OA! Incidentally Dr Sahu may kindly clarify if the downloads refer to full artcles or pages. Best wishes. Arun JPGM registers over 100 thousand article downloads in a month The number of article downloads per month has crossed the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five unique visitors downloaded 110,218 article pages in the month of November. These downloads are from the journal's primary website (i.e. www.jpgmonline.com). Apart from this website, the full text of the journal is also available from Bioline International, OAI-complaint repository at the University of Toronto and from a number of secondary aggregating agencies such as Thomson Gale, EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest. Thus, the actual downloads per month are much higher. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal's website. Over 270 institutions utilize the LinkOut facilities from PubMed to access the journal. Regards, DK Sahu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:25 PM To: peters@earlham.edu; dksahu@vsnl.com Subject: Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Dear Sahu: Please send a slightly more detailed note to Prof. Peter Suber. the one you have sent is too cryptic. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: DK Sahu To: 'Peter Suber' Cc: 'Subbiah Arunachalam' Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Sir You may like to add this in OAN. "The number of article downloads per month crosses the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five visitors downloaded/read 110,218 article pages in the month of November. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal." 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Here is a case in point from India. The Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Bombay) has become very popular ever since it became an OA journal, says Dr D K Sahu, a champion of OA in India. I wish the journals published by government agencies such as CSIR go OA! Incidentally Dr Sahu may kindly clarify if the downloads refer to full artcles or pages. Best wishes. Arun JPGM registers over 100 thousand article downloads in a month The number of article downloads per month has crossed the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five unique visitors downloaded 110,218 article pages in the month of November. These downloads are from the journal's primary website (i.e. http://www.jpgmonline.com www.jpgmonline.com ). Apart from this website, the full text of the journal is also available from http://www.bioline.org.br/jp Bioline International , http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/ OAI-complaint repository at the University of Toronto and from a number of secondary aggregating agencies such as http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/browse_JJ_J028 Thomson Gale , EBSCO Publishing and ProQuest. Thus, the actual downloads per month are much higher. Open access sources, http://www.doaj.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=00223859 DOAJ , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=PubMed&orig_db=PubMed&term=loftextJPGM%5Bfilter%5D+AND+0022-3859%5Bta%5D PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal's website. Over 270 institutions utilize the http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=15793330&dopt=ExternalLink&ExternalLink=libs LinkOut facilities from PubMed to access the journal. Regards, DK Sahu From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 4:25 PM To: peters@earlham.edu; dksahu@vsnl.com Subject: Fw: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Dear Sahu: Please send a slightly more detailed note to Prof. Peter Suber. the one you have sent is too cryptic. Arun ----- Original Message ----- From: mailto:dksahu@medknow.com DK Sahu To: mailto:peters@earlham.edu 'Peter Suber' Cc: mailto:arun@mssrf.res.in 'Subbiah Arunachalam' Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: JPGM crosses 100 thousand article downloads in a month Sir You may like to add this in OAN. The number of article downloads per month crosses the figure of 100,000. Ninety thousand three hundred twenty five visitors downloaded/read 110,218 article pages in the month of November. Open access sources, DOAJ, PubMed and Wikipedia were amongst the top five referrers (except search engines) for the journal. From the website - http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp http://www.jpgmonline.com/whatsnew.asp Regards, DK Sahu