The Dramatic Growth of Open Access for June 30, 2018 is now available: https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/07/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-june-2018.html
Highlights: DOAJ recently surpassed a a milestone of 3 million articles searchable at the article level, and added a net of 7 titles per day in the past quarter. Newcomer bioRxiv is really taking off. 38 of the limited number of indicators I track are growing at double or more the baseline rate of growth of scholarly journals and articles. There are 2 indicators with negative growth; reader help in interpreting would be appreciated. A PubMed search for "cancer" with no date limit returns 1% less free full-text than March 31 (the same search with recent data limiters shows growth). Internet Archive images have grown quite substantially in the past year, but decreased by 18% this quarter. best, [https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J04C734NlpU/Wz1dqp8IkTI/AAAAAAAABWI/J90U-4pZres40YLaE74zZOEepfm2XHznQCLcBGAs/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/biorxiv.png]<https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/07/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-june-2018.html> Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 2018<https://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2018/07/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-june-2018.html> poeticeconomics.blogspot.com Congratulations to DOAJ for recently surpassing a milestone of over 3 million articles searchable at the article level! The outstand... Heather Morrison Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa heather.morri...@uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706 sustainingknowledgecommons.org poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca
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