From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:50:48 -0800
2012 was yet another awesome year for open access growth. To
illustrate just how far we've come: a BASE search of over 2,400
repositories now searches over 40 million documents. The DOAJ article
search is inching up to the 1 million article mark, demonstrating that
the growth in gold OA is not just in OA journals, but more
importantly, in articles published in open access journals.
The numbers:
Directory of Open Access Journals
8,519 journals
2012 growth: 1,147 journals (3 journals / day)
# articles searchable at article level: 955,720
2012 growth in searchable articles: 234,449 (642 articles / day)
Directory of Open Access Books
1,259 academic peer-reviewed books from 35 publishers
new in 2012
Electronic Journals Library
37,805 journals that can be read free of charge
2012 growth: 5,421 journals (15 journals / day)
Highwire Press Free Online Articles
2,151,420 free articles
2012 growth: 41,640 articles (114 articles / day)
OpenDOAR
2,253 repositories
2012 growth: 89 repositories (7 repositories / month)
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
3,340 repositories
2012 growth: 730 repositories (2 repositories / day)
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
40,506,905 documents
2012 growth: 6,908,293 documents (18,926 documents / day)
PubMedCentral
2,600,000 articles (from PMC site)
2012 growth: 300,000 articles (from PMC site - update schedule not
known so not sure about accuracy)
1,199 journals deposit all articles in PMC
2012 growth: 220 journals (.6 journals / day
arXiv
809,849 e-prints
2012 growth: 83,886 e-prints (230 e-prints / day)
E-LIS
14,242 documents as of Dec. 11 - cannot find # of documents on new
site (E-LIS migrated to a new e-prints server in the past few days -
looks great!)
Social Sciences Research Network
372,772 full-text papers
2012 growth: 65,715 full-text papers (180 / day)
Open Access Mandate Policies (from Registry of Open Access Material
Archiving Policies)
353 open access policies (total)
2012 growth rate: 44 policies (4 policies / month)
Internet Archive
1,110,878 movies
110,448 concerts
1,474,756 recordings
3,781,142 texts
(new in 2012)
Details and further commentary:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/december-31-2012-dramatic-growth-of.html
Thank you to everyone who is making this happen, and all the best to
you & your OA endeavours in 2013.
Dr. Heather Morrison
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
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