Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2008

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

** with apologies for cross-posting **

I just posted the third quarter Dramatic Growth of Open Access.

Highlights:  this quarter, more than 3 million publications 
became available through Scientific Commons; more than 1 million 
records were added to OAIster.  DOAJ stands at 3,668 titles 
(about 15% of the world's scholarly, peer-reviewed journals), and 
is adding new titles at an average rate of 2.2 per calendar day.

There is evidence that about 20% of the world's scholarly journal 
literature is freely available, although the percentage will vary 
from one discipline to another.

There are 53 open access mandates around the world, and more in 
the works.

For details, please see:

The Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2008
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/09/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html

The Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series (English)
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2006/08/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-series.html

The Dramatic Growth of Open Access (Japanese)
http://drf.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/drf/index.php?Foreign%20Documents

The Dramatic Growth of Open Access Dataverse (open data for free
download)
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/dgoa

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