From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 21:52:00 +0000

This concludes yet another amazing year of growth for open access.

Highlights

DOAJ robust growth, both in terms of number of titles added and
searchable articles, is back on track in spite of DOAJ's new get-tough
inclusion policy. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine's addition of
over 15 million documents and 671 content providers in 2015 for over
84 million documents and close to 4,000 content providers is a
rough-but-persuasive indication of the health of the open access
repository movement. Although BASE repositories include both non-OA
and OA materials, the over 3.7 million free fulltext documents now
available via PubMedCentral alone is just one indication of the robust
growth of OA via archives. SCOAP3 takes the prize for highest growth
by percentage in 2015, more than doubling in content, closely followed
by the Directory of Open Access Books (both for books and publishers).
Internet Archive and the Open Library have opened up access to 8.8
million texts; perhaps even more impressive is that more than 8
million are fully accessible and in the public domain.

For details and charts, see The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-december.html

Raw data can be downloaded from the Dramatic Growth of Open Access Dataverse:

http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/dgoa

Thank you to everyone who is making all of this happen. I have only
one recommended resolution for 2016: keep up the good work!

Happy New Year!

--
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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