From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 20:23:54 +0000

The September 30, 2014 edition of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access
is now available:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2014/10/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html

This issues features some useful numbers and figures for those
upcoming open access week presentations, and a hearty thank to
everyone who is doing all the hard work that makes all this growth
possible (in the spirit of the forthcoming Canadian thanksgiving).

A few quick highlights:

More than 10,000 fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals
are now available, and close to 50,000 journals of scholarly interest
that are free-to-read.

Open access monographs is an area enjoying rapid growth (40% annual
growth in both books and publishers).

There are about 2,700 open access repositories, containing over 64
million documents.

The largest OA archive, PubMedCentral, has over 3.2 million documents.
Journal participation in PMC is increasing at the rate of 15% per
year. PMC journals providing immediate free access is growing by 20%
per year, and journals with all articles open access is increased at a
17% annual rate.

ROARMAP lists 483 open access policies, a 16% increase over the past year.

There are many others tracking open access growth in various ways.
Readers are encouraged and invited to provide links to these works in
the comments section.

best,
--
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
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