BioMed Central recently recorded its 25 millionth article download. In fact, by the time it could publish the milestone, its download tally was over 26.5 million. From its annnouncement: 'These figures mean that, on average, each article published in a BioMed Central journal has been downloaded more than 3,500 times. This is based solely on access statistics from the BioMed Central website. You can add to this number all the downloads from PubMed Central and the other open archives where the articles have been deposited. Published figures from a leading subscription-based STM publisher indicate that over the same time period, each article published in their journals was downloaded considerably less than 500 times (on average).'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/09/2005 11:00:00 AM.
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.
