Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2011

Friends and implementers of open access around the world: we have outdone ourselves (again!). This quarter a number of initiatives have met or exceeded some interesting milestones. DOAJ is now over 7,000 journals, and still adding more than 4 titles per day. The Electronic Journals Library now lists more than 30,000 titles that are freely available. OpenDOAR now lists more than 2,000 repositories, and the BASE search engine searches more than 31 million documents in repositories. ROARMAP now lists a total of 300 open access mandate policies. Kudos to PMC for clearly posting pertinent data right on their website, and for growing the number of journals making all articles available OA by 19 to a new total of 635 - and for growing free fulltext at the rate of one per minute! Following are links to quick reference and full data versions, rationale and method, items of interest from this quarter, and noteworthy data from this quarter.

Quick Reference (for viewing)
Quick Reference and Full Data (this quarter only) for downloading
Dataverse - Full data (for downloading)
Rationale and method
Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series

Items of interest since June 30, 2011

• added October 3 - July item from PLoS Blog, it's official 2010 was the first year PLoS was in the black! http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2011/07/2010-plos-progress-update/  This bodes very well for future growth of OA, especially with no price increases for article processing fees.
  

• Walters, W. H., & Linville, A. C. (2001). Characteristics of open access journals in six subject areas. College and Research Libraries, 72(4), 372-392. Retrieved from http://crl.acrl.org/content/72/4/372.abstract. Good analysis of English-language DOAJ journals. Understates growth of OA, based on an article by Sally Morris. See here for critique of this approach.


• Bhaskar Mukherjee and Mohammad Nazim have published "Open Access Institutional Archives: A Quantitative Study (2006-2010)" in the DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology.. Link to Charles Bailey's Digital Koans excerpt rather than article per se as I am not able to connect to the journal today.


• Increasing percentage of content in UK PMC is fully open access


• Anticipating OA Growth: Nature Publishing Group


• BASE reaches 2,000 repositories (August 17, 2011


• Nature News Blog: How Many Research Papers are Freely Available?


• OpenDOAR exceeds 2,000 repositories listed


• Mendeley exceeds 100 million papers!


• PMC growth: about one free fulltext per minute 

• Hindawi exceeds more than 4,000 submissions in a single month for the first time

• Open Conference Systems - graph illustrating increase in users 

• DOAJ:  7,000 journals and the DOAJ site in Turkish! 

• Internet Archive: 3 million texts for free 

• Nature Publishing Group annual letter to customers (2011) lots of stats on NPG's expanding OA options 

The data
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  http://www.doaj.org/

• # journals 7,070
• growth this quarter: 376 titles
• # journals searchable at article level:  3,253
• growth this quarter: 293
• # articles searchable at article level:  637,427
• growth this quarter: 51,900

Electronic Journals Library

• # of journals that can be read free of charge:  30, 963
• growth this quarter:  1,767

Highwire Press Freehttp://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl&

• # free articles 2,117,523
• growth this quarter 964

OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/

• # repositories 2,085
• growth this quarter 105

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) http://www.base-search.net/

•  # documents 31,044,880
• growth this quarter 2,133,615
• # content providers 2,027
• growth this quarter 137

PubMedCentral  http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ 

• # articles archived in PMC (from PMC website) 2,200,000
• # journals that deposit all articles (from PMC website) 893
• # journals that deposit NIH-funded articles (from PMC website) 296
• # journals that deposit selected articles (from PMC website) 1,517
• # journals actively participating in PMC (total minus predecessor minus no new content) 1,214
• growth this quarter 38
• # journals in PMC with immediate free access 746
• growth this quarter 25
• # journals in PMC with all articles open access 635
• growth this quarter 19

arXiv http://arxiv.org/

• # documents 704,659
• growth this quarter 19,007

RePEC http://repec.org/ 

• # of documents 1,085,000 25,000
• growth this quarter 130,000
• RePEC online (fulltext) 955,000
• growth this quarter 30,000

E-LIS http://eprints.rclis.org/

• # documents 12,319
• growth this quarter 307

Open Access Mandate Policies based on ROARMAP http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

• Sub-Institutional (was Departmental) 33
• growth this quarter 0
• Funder 52
• growth this quarter 4
• Institutional 132
• growth this quarter 5
• Multi-institutional 1
• growth this quarter 0
• Thesis 82
• growth this quarter 2
• Total 300
• growth this quarter 11
• Proposed Mandates 20