No, any upswing in 2008 is not the result of the formation of OASPA. My simple point was that the growth was clearly not the result of membership of OASPA as the chart extended to before the creation of OASPA. Hans has pointed out the obvious interpretation of the chart - as supported by the text given by OASPA. Also the data are now available.
And I've seen nobody complain about 'scholarly critiques' so I'm not sure why Heather has put that into the mix. David On 12 Mar 2013, at 16:24, Heather Morrison wrote: > To illustrate how growth in the use of this one license is likely conflated > with overall growth of open access and other factors such as an increas in > OASPA membership, here are the data for the growth in DOAJ including search > by article for 2012: > > • 8,461 journals - increased by 1,133 over past year or 3 titles per day > • 4,199 journals searchable by article - up 739 over past year, 2 per > day > • 944,804 articles searchable by article - up 246,258 over past year, > 674 per day > • easy prediction: over 1 million articles searchable by article early > in 2013 > > from: The Dramatic Growth of Open Access 2012 early year-end edition: > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-2012.html > > The total number of articles searchable by article is impacted or potentially > by several factors: > - additive - new articles published by existing journals > - increasing publication rates for OA journals > - technical - more journals added to the mix (more journals searchable by > article at DOAJ) > - digitization of back issues for journals that have converted from print > > What does this mean for interpreting the OASPA chart? > > - the growth shown likely mirrors the overall growth of open access. > During this time frame, there has been dramatic growth not only in OA > journals, but also in repositories and their contents. > - the OASPA chart shows a significant upswing in 2008, the year OASPA was > formed as David Prosser points out. > > In order to properly assess the data, what is needed is an explanation of the > research method and details about the data itself. Ideally, the full data for > anyone for download and mine. > > I find it mind-boggling that scholarly publishers and their associations, > whether traditional or open access, need to have someone point out to them > that if they wish to present data / chart to make a case, they should present > their research method and be prepared to accepted scholarly critique. > > best, > > Heather Morrison, PhD > The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com > > On 2013-03-12, at 1:46 AM, David Prosser wrote: > >> As the chart has data going back to 2000 and OASPA was only formed in 2008 >> I'm finding it difficult to see how the figures can be influenced by growing >> OASPA membership! >> >> David >> >> >> >> On 11 Mar 2013, at 20:57, Heather Morrison wrote: >> >>> OASPA has posted a picture of a chart of CC-BY growth on their blog: >>> http://oaspa.org/growth-in-use-of-the-cc-by-license-2/ >>> >>> The chart by itself is difficult to interpret. For example, to what extent >>> is CC-BY growth conflated with OASPA membership growth or overall open >>> access growth? >>> >>> Will OASPA be releasing the data for all to mine? >>> >>> best, >>> >>> Heather G. Morrison >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> GOAL mailing list >>> GOAL@eprints.org >>> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GOAL mailing list >> GOAL@eprints.org >> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
