From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:23:31 -0800


I believe Kassab was referring to revenues.  That may be the wrong
metric or simply a different one, but it would not be dishonest.
Calling this a correction is misleading.  Better to say that the other
metrics provide broader context.

Joe Esposito

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:12 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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:
> Forwarded with permission
> To: <[log in to unmask]>:
> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:47:24 -0500
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> 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