Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

Éric raises a good point. My numbers are intended solely as the best surrogate for global open access content. However I argue that the BASE data should be sufficient to at minimum raise serious doubts about an oft-quoted truism that there is no content in repositories. An minimum this is 100 m

[GOAL] 1science pricing -- RE: Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

Richard Yes, indeed I am 1science’s CEO. We are working on a freely accessible version of the system but obviously we need to find a way of not cannibalising the sales of our system as our intention is to keep improving our offering and for this we have to monetize what we are doing as we are a

Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

​I agree that like-for-like comparisons are needed. BASE says that around 60% of the documents it indexes are full-text. See here: https://www.base-search.net/about/en/ Some of its records also appear to be a little lightweight. Consider, for instance, the first item listed here: https://www.

Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

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 doc

Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2016

Thanks Heather, very interesting stats. I will add to this that Paperity , a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access journals and papers, a few days ago passed 1 million article milestone: https://blog.paperity.org/2016/09/16/paperity-hits-1-million-paper-milestone/ M