Friday, September 30, 2011

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
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