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 > > 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