<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Hilton Gibson</b></div><div>Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</div><div>JS Gericke Library</div><div>Room 1025C</div><div>Stellenbosch University</div><div>Private Bag X5036</div><div>Stellenbosch</div><div>7599</div><div>South Africa</div><div><br></div><div>Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Heather Morrison</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>></span><br>Date: 8 April 2015 at 05:17<br>Subject: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access first quarter 2015<br>To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br><br><br>The first quarter Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available:<br>
<a href="http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-2015.html" target="_blank">http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-2015.html</a><br>
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Selected highlights<br>
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OpenDOAR added 129 repositories for a total of 2,857 open access repositories. The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine added close to 3 million documents for a total of over 71 million documents. SSRN added another 7,690 authors this quarter for a total of over 275,000 authors. Internet Archive added 1.7 million texts for a total of over 7.8 million.<br>
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In spite of vigorous weeding and reorganizing, DOAJ is back to ongoing strong growth, adding close to 3 journals per day, over a quarter million articles searchable at the article level over the past year.<br>
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Congratulations to the Directory of Open Access Books which recently surpassed a milestone of 100 publishers.<br>
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Data is openly available for download from the DGOA dataverse:<br>
<a href="http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/dgoa" target="_blank">http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/dgoa</a><br>
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Congratulations and thanks to all of the many individuals and organizations that are making open access happen.<br>
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Dr. Heather Morrison<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies<br>
University of Ottawa<br>
<a href="http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html" target="_blank">http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html</a><br>
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