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</span></span><![endif]>DOAJ journal titles are growing more than 3 times faster than the average growth rate for scholarly journals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>BMC article submissions have grown over a hundred times more than one would have expected at the average growth rate for scholarly journal articles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Downloadable data for the Dramatic Growth of Open Access can be found at the <a href="http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/dgoa/">Dramatic Growth of Open Access Dataverse</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Ina Smith<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a 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