Dear Heather, Perhaps to add to your inventory http://www.openaccess.nl/news/420-healthy-growth-of-open-access-publications-in-the-netherlands
The figures of OA publication in Narcis are: Year OA ending Publications 2013 365,698 2012 310,144 2011 270,519 All the best Wouter Wouter Gerritsma Team leader research support Information Specialist - Bibliometrician Wageningen UR Library PO box 9100 6700 HA Wageningen The Netherlands ++31 3174 83052 wouter.gerrit...@wur.nl wageningenur.nl/library @wowter wowter.net #AWCP http://tinyurl.com/mk65m36 -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: donderdag 2 januari 2014 16:08 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] December 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access The December 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2014/01/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-december.html This is the first open source edition. Data files are available in non-proprietary formats and licensing has been removed and replaced with some thoughts on attribution, repeated here to encourage discussion. Note that these comments are about data in spreadsheet format, not articles or the blog commentary. To attribute or not to attribute? If you are using the data for scholarly purposes, you should cite your source. This is not a copyright issue, it's a question of appropriate scholarly practice. Using this data in a scholarly work without citing the source would constitute plagiarism, a serious offense in academia which can cost students their degrees and scholars their jobs. Aside from the question of plagiarism, when writing scholarly works you should point to your sources so that readers can look up the data themselves. There is no need for copyright! If you are using the data for the purposes of promoting open access, attribution is welcome and encouraged, but please use your judgement. If you're using a few figures on an open access poster or presentation, don't let attribution take away from the effectiveness of your presentation. My hope is that this small step will encourage all of us in the open access movement to move away from our hard critical approaches to move to a new era of open discussion on the nuances of best practices to transition to open access. While I remain firmly opposed to what I consider the overly simplistic and dangerous perspective equating the Creative Commons CC-BY license with open access, I see the value of open sharing of data and would welcome a discussion about how to make this happen. Happy 2014!! -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.ca _______________________________________________ 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
