Re-Posting this from ERIL-L:
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:58:44 -0700
From: Heather Morrison
Subject: Let the competition begin! Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 30, 2011
The June 30, 2011 issue of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now
available, at:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/06/let-competition-begin-
dramatic-growth.html
Highlights:
Celebrates the growth of open access in the area of the medical
literature. It was only a little more than a decade ago when the
medline index was available only to subscribers. Today, not only is
PubMed available to all – so are more than 3.3 million free fulltext
documents indexed in PubMed. 1,176 journals voluntarily participate
in PubMed; on average, one new title is added per day. More than
half of these journals are open access.
COMPETITION YEARS HYPOTHESIS
Builds on the finding of Laakso et al of a tenfold increase in open
access publishing from 1993 to 2009 (http://www.plosone.org/article/
info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020961). Laakso et al theorized a
threefold division during this time frame, the pioneering years, the
innovation years, and the consolidation years. My hypothesis, based
in part on the announcements in recent months by traditional
publishers appearing to enter into serious competition in the OA
arena (Springer Open – now with 50 journals; Wiley Open; Nature
Communications, and today, Open Biology), is that we have already
entered a new phase, which I am calling the competition years.
Selected numbers:
There are now more than 10,000 OJS installations worldwide, up from
9,000 last quarter (10% quarterly growth, 40% annual equivalent)
DOAJ 6,694 titles growth rate 4 titles / day
Electronic Journals Library (free journals of academic interest)
29,000 titles, growth rate 11 titles / day
OpenDOAR 1,980 repositories growth rate 1 / day
BASE 29 million documents, growth rate 11,000 / day
ROARMAP 289 open access mandate policies
PubMedCentral:
1,176 journals actively participating; increase of 92 this quarter, 1
journal / day;
721 journals immediate free access; increase of 59 this quarter
616 all articles open access; increase of 51 this quarter
Heather G. Morrison
Doctoral Candidate, SFU School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
