From: Richard Brown <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 08:01:56 -0400 Heather, Thanks for this. Lots of interesting and useful information. I am struck by a phrase at the bottom of your blog post, which I assume is your slogan: "Education is a Public Good--not a commercial activity." While I agree that education is a public good, it's undeniable that education is a commercial activity. (I say this as an employee of a university and as the father of three children in college.) In fact, all public goods--national defense, the sewer system, parks, etc.--require gargantuan and ongoing financial exchanges and related commercial activities. If you're trying to make the point that education should be nonexcludable, which is a definitional aspect of a public good, OK. But that's a different claim than education is not commercial. It is. Richard Brown -- Richard Brown, PhD Director Georgetown University Press Suite 250 3240 Prospect Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 [log in to unmask] 202-687-5912 www.press.georgetown.edu On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:36 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Heather Morrison <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:46:16 +0000 > > The June 30, 2016 version of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now > available: > > > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2016/06/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-june-30.html > > Highlights > > * Over 40% of the cancer literature indexed by PubMed is available as > full-text within 3 years of publication (17% within 30 days) > > * Internet Archive exceeds 10 million free texts > > * Ongoing strong growth in open access archives, both repositories and > content, as seen through OpenDOAR, ROAR, and BASE > > * 50% annual growth rate for the Directory of Open Access Books > > * Directory of Open Access Journals has overall negative growth due to > major clean-up but showed strong growth in articles searchable at > article level and now adding titles at the rate of 4.5 per day > > * Concern noted about the apparent ongoing dramatic growth of Elsevier > > 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 > Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ > [log in to unmask] >