...Full analysis and growth charts will be published early in the New Year. In the interim, here are a few tidbits of information and observation:
Since Dec. 11, 2008 [when Heather computed the early version of her year-end growth numbers]....There are two more institutional mandates, more journals in DOAJ, all the major international open access harvesting services have added more repositories and more items, there are more journals participating in PMC, more providing immediate free access in PMC, and more providing full open access to all articles!
A few quick figures to start off the New Year (some rounded): As of December 31, 2008:
DOAJ - 3,812 journals (up 800 titles in the past year; adding 2 titles per day)
OAIster - 19.4 million items - up 5 million in the past year
Scientific Commons - 24.4 million publications - up 5 million in the past year
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/01/2009 12:45:00 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.
