From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:56:32 -0800
On 6-Feb-12, at 4:59 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
Forwarded with permission
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:47:24 -0500
Sami Kassab [log in to unmask] wrote:
* Open Access unlikely to hurt financials in the medium term and is priced in
The proportion of Open Access is growing at less than 1% pa.
##Correction / clarification: this rate may well be correct for
Elsevier's high-price, low-value "Sponsored Articles" version of open
access, which I would describe as pseudo open access.
The actual OA growth rates are much greater, however. Some examples of
growth in 2011:
Directory of Open Access Journals
24% journal growth
47% growth in articles searchable at article level
Open J-Gate
33% growth in english-language peer-reviewed open access journal
OpenDOAR
19% growth in number of repositories
BASE
32% growth in number of documents in repositories
PubMedCentral
15% article growth
Bjork et - percentage of open access within 2 years of publication: 20%
For details, see:
December 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-2012-open-access-movement.html
Bjork et al references - Dramatic Growth Rationale & Method
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/appendix-b-the-dramatic-growth-of-open-access-rationale-method/
best,
Heather Morrison
