Dramatic growth of open access

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

Open access - both journals and archives - continues to grow 
dramatically.

New titles are being added to the Directory of Open Access 
Journals at the rate of more than 2 per day.

An OAIster search today looks through more than 700,000 new items 
than a search three months ago (in total, well over 7 million 
items).

E-LIS, the Open Archive for Library and Information Science, is 
expanding at the equivalent of about 56% per year.

For more details and analysis, please see my blogpost, The 
Dramatic Growth of Open Access:  March 31, 2006 Update, at: 
http://tinyurl.com/o7zkf

Heather G. Morrison
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
E-LIS Editor, Canada http://eprints.rclis.org/