[Irtalk] Dramatic Growth of Open Access March 31 2011

[Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za>]

Some very impressive stats - specifically on DOAJ
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/03/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-march-31.html


-          DOAJ article search has grown about 7 times what one would expect given the average scholarly article growth overall over the past 6 years.

-          DOAJ journal titles are growing more than 3 times faster than the average growth rate for scholarly journals.

-          BMC article submissions have grown over a hundred times more than one would have expected at the average growth rate for scholarly journal articles.

-          Downloadable data for the Dramatic Growth of Open Access can be found at the Dramatic Growth of Open Access Dataverse<http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/dgoa/>.

Ina Smith
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