From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:16:57 +0000


Thanks, Stevan

It would appear that the 1% p.a. growth figure used by BNP Paribas comes
from Yassine Gargouri's work in Stevan's own lab, and covers the period
2005-10.

Sally

(En passant, how is it that research funded by publishers is always dissed
by OA enthusiasts, while that carried out by the most ardent OA enthusiasts
is embraced?  As far as I can tell, both groups carry out equally sound and
objective research...)



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From: Stevan Harnad <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 01:45:48 -0500

On 2012-02-08, at 9:38 PM, Sally Morris wrote:

> Can Heather (or anyone) provide a figure of (immediate) OA articles as
> a percentage of all articles in each recent year?  That's what we need
> to look at to see whether, as Sami states, it is indeed growing at just 1%
p.a.

See:

Poynder, Richard (2011) Open Access by Numbers, Open and Shut, 19 June
2011 http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-access-by-numbers.html

Laakso M, Welling P, Bukvova H, Nyman L, Björk B-C, et al. (2011) The
Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009. PLoS ONE
6(6): e20961. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961

New data forthcoming shortly from analyses by Université du Québec &
University of Southampton.

Stevan Harnad