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From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:06:39 +0000


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.

Sally



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Subject: Elsevier Futures: Exane Paribus - OA growth rate correction

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:
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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

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