> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Peter Suber wrote: > > > * HighWire Press is now the world's largest free online archive of articles > > in the life sciences and overall second only on to the NASA's Astrophysics > > Data System. HighWire now hosts 100 journals that provide free online > > access to their full-texts, including back issues, and it recently hosted > > its 330,000th free online article.
P.S. HighWire is not second only to the NASA archive. The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs (which describes itself as "Earth's largest free full-text index of scientific literature"), though it too may not be the largest, is, with 500,000+ free online articles in computer science, bigger than HighWire's free online collection. But no one should be crowing about being the biggest while the more (and perhaps much more) than at least 2 million articles that appear EVERY YEAR in the world's 20,000 refereed journals are still far from free online. http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/arlbin/arl.cgi?task=setupstats All the totals mentioned are just cumulative totals across the years. The Physics Archive [http://arxiv.org], for example, has over 150,000 articles, but cumulated across 10 years! At that rate, even for this most advanced of all the self-archiving disciplines, the year 2011 will be the first in which ALL the articles published in physics that year will be accessible for free for all: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img001.htm http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img002.htm This is why institution-based self-archiving now needs to be vigorously supported and promoted to fast-forward us all to the optimal and inevitable for research and researchers. Harnad, S. (2001) The Self-Archiving Initiative. Nature 410: 1024-1025 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/nature4.htm Nature WebDebates version: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html Fuller version: The Author/Institution Self-Archiving Initiative to Free the Refereed Research Literature Online. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/selfarch.htm All interested parties are invited to join the international discussion on this (in 3 languages!) currently going on from Nov 15 - Nov 30 at: http://text-e.org/ Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html or http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html You may join the list at the amsci site. Discussion can be posted to: [email protected]
