Just a quick note. The fact that BASE has more than 100 million "documents" is not such a meaningful information as they do not define "documents". My impression is that they are truly speaking about metadata records, not full-text documents as a large number of these records do not contain documents - so document is a misnomer. Scopus and WoS both have more than half a billion references compiled. This is also several order of magnitude greater than ScienceDirect but what is the value of that information as we are not comparing likes. ScienceDirect comprises full-text articles. How many are from peer-reviewed journals; are many such articles (deduplicated) are in BASE. This is the relevant statistics. Of course, extending this to monographs and conference proceedings full-text papers is also relevant, but we need to compare likes for likes.
Eric Archambault, Ph.D. President and CEO | Président-directeur général Science-Metrix & 1science T. 1.514.495.6505 x.111 C. 1.514.518.0823 F. 1.514.495.6523 Come visit us at the Frankfurt Book Fair at booth L85 in Hall 4.2 on October 19-23! Venez nous rencontrer à la Foire du livre de Francfort du 19 au 23 octobre, kiosque L85 du Hall 4.2. -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: October-06-16 9:56 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016 The third quarter Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available. There will be plenty to celebrate for this year’s open access week! Highlights: Globally OA repository contents have exceeded a milestone of over 100 million documents as indirectly measured by a BASE meta-search. This dispersed collection is now an order of magnitude larger than Science Direct! Despite a vigorous weeding and new get-tough inclusion policy, DOAJ articles searchable at article level grew by about a quarter million this past year, and DOAJ is now adding titles at the rate of 1.5 per day. OpenDOAR added new repositories at almost exactly the same rate as DOAJ added journal titles. Internet Archive now has over 3 million audio recordings. There are over 2,000 more OA books and 161 more publishers in DOAB than there were a year ago. PubMedCentral continues to show strong growth in every measure: more journals actively participating, more providing immediate free access, all articles open access, some articles open access. Details and links: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2016/10/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.html To download the data: https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/dgoa best, -- 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 Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ heather.morri...@uottawa.ca _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7797 / Virus Database: 4656/13121 - Release Date: 09/30/16 _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
