The Dramatic NET growth of open access

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

As discussed on Liblicense last week, there is to-and-fro in open 
access and subscriptions in these transitional times. 
Occasionally, a journal that is open access reverts to a 
subscriptions basis.

Overall, however, the trend is very much from subscriptions to 
open access.

The growth rate of 822 added titles to DOAJ in the past year, 
average growth rate of 2.25 titles per calendar day, is NET 
growth.  As Lars Bjornshauge reported last week, over the past 
few years DOAJ has weeded about 30 titles as they no longer fit 
the criteria for inclusion in DOAJ.  Any titles weeded before 
September 30, 2008, are NOT counted in the dramatic growth 
figures for DOAJ.

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

Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, 
and does not represent 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