The Dramatic Growth of Open Access continues! This quarter, more than 3 million publications were added to Scientific Commons, 1 million records to OAIster; the DOAJ stands at 3,668 titles, and has added 822 titles (net) in the past year, for an average daily addition of 2.25 titles. The percentage of the world's scholarly literature that is freely available appears to be close to 20%. PubMedCentral includes 2.4 million free items; 375 journals provide immediate free access to contents, and addition of 20 in the past quarter, and 257 journals provide immediate open access. There are 53 open access mandates in the world, with more to come; and more than 15,000 blogposts on Open Access News! ...
Directory of Open Access Journals Number of Journals: 3,668 Journals Added in the Last Year: 822 Average daily added titles: 2.25
Scientific Commons # Publications: 22.6 million # Publications Added Last Year: 6.4 million # Publications Added this Quarter: 3 million
OAIster # Records: 17.9 million # Records Added this Past Year: 4.5 million # Records Added this Past Quarter: 1 million
OpenDOAR # Repositories: 1,254 Repositories Added this Year: 304
PubMedCentral # journals with immediate free access: 375 added this quarter: 20 # journals with immediate open access: 257 # free items from PubMed: 2.4 million % of literature indexed in PubMed freely available: 18%
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.
