From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:43:36 +0000

The June 30, 2015 Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/06/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-june-30.html

Selected highlights:

Over 2,000 journals are now actively participating in PubMedCentral.
This is only one of a number of journal participation measures that is
constantly increasing (e.g. number of journals with immediate free
access, number of journals contributing all content).

Of the 24 million citations in PubMed, 3.5 million or 15% lead to free
full-text. This is overall, no date limits.

71% of all the articles published by NIH funded authors (again
regardless of date of publication) now lead to full-text.

There are now more than 100 publishers of scholarly open access books
listed in the Directory of Open Access Books.

The Social Sciences Research Network now surpasses half a million
full-text articles.

The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine points to over 75 million publications.

best,

--
Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
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