RE: Dramatic growth of open access

["David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>]

I expand on Matt's remark about the difficulty of even obtaining 
basic data.

It would be very useful if the publishers of journals with 
occasional OA articles were to post lists of those published. 
Asssuming that they engage in such a manner of publication in the 
hope of providing at least some OA, they ought to want to display 
their success.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman@liu.edu

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A better approach would be to analyse the number of immediate 
open access articles published year on year. This is challenging 
to do, not least because several years on it is very difficult to 
be sure what *was* open access at the moment of publication. But 
that is really the metric that counts.

Matthew Cockerill, Ph.D.
Publisher
BioMed Central ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/ )
London, UK

Email: matt@biomedcentral.com