The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: September 30 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-10-14

Summary:

"This issue of the Dramatic Growth of Open Access is dedicated to the hard-working staff at the US PubMedCentral who have done so much to make open access happen and are now on furlough. These charts show the steady increase in numbers and percentages of articles funded by NIH that are freely available within 3 years of publication. Since 2008, the percentage has increased from 35% to 64%. Aside from thanking the researchers, the reason that I have selected this as an issue to highlight is to point out that the U.S. government shutdown is a major concern for scholarship as a whole, not just open access scholarship. When the world's largest medical research funding agency is shut down, research funds do not flow. Equipment cannot be bought or research assistants hired. When the total quantity of research decreases, there will be less need for publication, whether toll or open access. For anyone with a genuine concern to advance knowledge, this should be the focus. This is incidentally intended to add to my critical comments on the Bohannon / Science article focusing on poor peer review at a few new journals. I argue that the fact that Science would choose this as a focus at this moment in time suggests a publisher out of touch with the realities of the research communities. If the U.S. government shutdown continues, I predict a drop in scholarly research outputs ...Highlights this quarter  ... The open access journals listed in DOAJ are growing significantly in number of journals and article searchable at article level. The number of journals searchable at the article level grew this quarter grew by 660 to a total of 5,597, a total of 7 new journals searchable per day. The number of articles searchable via DOAJ at article level is now 1.5 million, a growth of 386,000 this quarter. DOAJ now has a browse by publication charge feature which makes it easy to illustrate that about two-thirds of the journals listed in DOAJ do NOT charge article processing fees. Internet Archive continues to amaze, adding 10 billion webpages this quarter for a total of 357 billion webpages. The number of texts freely available through the Internet Archive is over 5 million, with half a million added this quarter ..."

Link:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2013/10/september-30-2013-dramatic-growth-of.html

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.policies oa.comment oa.government oa.usa oa.nih oa.green oa.doaj oa.doab oa.ssrn oa.ia oa.base oa.roar oa.highwire oa.roarmap oa.pmc oa.shutdown oa.repositories oa.opendoar

Date tagged:

10/14/2013, 08:31

Date published:

10/14/2013, 04:31