Open Access: Quick Stats, Fast Facts

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

**  with apologies for cross-posting  **

Getting ready for fall and need a really quick update on open 
access?  Here are some quick tips:

How much open access is there already?  Answer:  lots!!

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists over 2,800 
titles, and is growing at a rate of more than one title per 
calendar day. http://www.doaj.org

An OAIster search encompasses more than 12 million records in 
over 800 repositories. http://www.oaister.org/

Scientific Commons includes more than 16 million publications 
from over 6 million authors in over 800 repositories. 
http://www.scientificcommons.org/

For more key links for busy librarians needing to help faculty 
wishing to make their work openly accessible, and a quick update 
on mandate policies, see my blogpost, Open Access:  Quick Stats, 
Fast Facts, at: 
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2007/08/catalog-record-for-ijpe.html

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, 
and does not reflect the opinion or policy of BC Electronic 
Library Network or Simon Fraser University Library.

Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com