From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 11:53:51 -0800


The December 31, 2011 issue of The Dramatic Growth of Open Access is
now available at:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-2012-open-access-movement.html

Highlights

There are over 7,000 peer-reviewed fully open access journals as
listed in the DOAJ, still growing by 4 titles per day and over 6,000
of these are in English, as listed by Open J-Gate. Electronic Journals
Library keeps track of more than 32,000 free journals. There are over
2,000 repositories, linking to more than 30 million items, growing at
the rate of 21 thousand items per day, which can be searched through
the snazzy new Bielefeld Academic Search Engine search options. PLoS
ONE, having become the world's largest journal last year, outdid
themselves by doubling the number of articles published this year.
PubMedCentral, arXiv, RePEC, and E-LIS growth was in the 10-15% range
for the year. This issue of Dramatic Growth adds a new feature, a
first attempt at comparing compliance rates with a few medical
funders' open access policies - so far, Wellcome Trust is looking
good!

best,

Heather Morrison
Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com