Scientific Commons exceeds 20 million items!

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

A Scientific Commons search now exceeds 20 million items!
http://www.scientificcommons.org/

Congratulations, Scientific Commons!

Other Scientific Commons stats:  over 8 million authors, 911 
repositories.

If this is OA in the early days when self-archiving is new and 
growth is slow - what will the numbers look like in a few years 
when all those OA mandates have their impact, and self-archiving 
becomes just a natural step in all disciplines (just as it 
already is in high energy physics)?

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