Open Access Journals: Around the World, and Top OA Publishing Countries

As of March 10, 2009, the journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals are published in 97 different countries!

The top 6 OA-journal-producing countries are:

• U.S. - 858 journals
• Brazil - 370 journals
• United Kingdom - 326 journals
• Spain - 233 journals
• Germany - 152 journals
• Canada - 113 journals

So far in 2009, 30 journals have been added to the top-producing country, the U.S. This is about one new U.S. OA journal every other day! This is just the U.S. - only a fraction of the ongoing Dramatic Growth of Open Access!

These data are from the DOAJ's Journals by Country feature.