Last night the University of California's eScholarship Repository logged its 3 millionth full-text download. As I type, the number is up to 3,006,465, which means 6,465 full-text downloads in less than one day. Quoting Catherine Candee, Director of Publishing and Strategic Initiatives at the California Digital Library:
It took a year and a half for the repository to register the first million downloads, about nine months to reach the second million, and 166 days to reach the 3 million mark!
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/19/2006 04:48:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
