Dear Heather and Eric, As an appreciative reader of Heather's work and a librarian where 1Science data is being acquired, having data sources of different types to compare, merge, and munge is extremely helpful. I use both sources, among myriad others, for professional analysis of OA publishing patterns and trends to inform decisions and strategies.
The Open Access landscape is huge, heterogeneous, and multifaceted. As writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie relates in her TED Talk "The danger of a single story", flattening our observations may be simpler, but distorts what is real. Researchers including librarians can handle the complexity and multiple stories that arise from having multiple sources of OA data continue to emerge and become available. Heartfelt thanks to all working to shed light on Open Access publishing: we need those many stories! Sincerely, Gail Gail P. Clement | Head of Research Services | Caltech Library | Mail Code 1-43 | Pasadena CA 91125-4300 | 626-395-1203 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4806 | library.caltech.edu From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 2:15 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org> Subject: Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2017 hi Eric, Thank you for this information. The purpose of my Dramatic Growth of Open Access (DGOA) series is a reminder that we are making substantial progress, and a friendly thank you to the people whose hard work is responsible for said progress. DGOA is a labour of love, something I do as a volunteer limited to the few hours every quarter I can devote to this project. For my purposes, if the answers to the questions "how much OA is there" and "is OA growing and by how much" are "a lot whole" and "yes, by leaps and bounds" that is quite satisfactory for my purposes. As an historical note, I began this work long ago when one of the anti-OA strategies was to claim that OA was stalled or failing. One reason I have continued is to counter the normal human tendency to see the occasional setback or frustration at slow progress locally as signs of global lack of progress. It is important for people who do the challenging work of building repositories to see the global success story that I see in BASE growth. I see many others who now tell their own dramatic growth stories. My perspective is that this is a welcome strategy, one that will benefit many OA initiatives by demonstrating progress (helping to make a case for support) and building morale. I wish I had the time to link to each of these. If people need more precise numbers and wish to pay your company for its services they can do that. DGOA is what it is. I plan to continue, but have no intention of further development and for this reason no interest in discussing a more precise methodology. Anyone who enjoys the series or finds the numbers useful is welcome to read or download. If anyone would rather not bother, that's fine, reading is not required. best, Heather Morrison -------- Original message -------- From: Éric Archambault <eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com<mailto:eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com>> Date: 2017-10-24 4:44 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal@eprints.org<mailto:goal@eprints.org>> Subject: Re: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2017 Heather, How do you derive this percentage? Also, are you using the same definition of document than BASE is using. It seems to me that BASE equates documents to metadata records, one for one. A metadata record could however refers to a photograph. So this estimate of 60% of "documents" means what? I'm sure there are more than 70 million free pictures on the internet. I think it's important to have definitions that are precise otherwise we can't know if a number is high or not, and we can't know if OA is experiencing a dramatic growth or a set back. I could say a document is a web page in which case there are several billion documents freely accessible on the Web. That said, this number is not highly useful as we have no idea what is being counted. SO it's usually useful to consider a particular type of document, a scholarly article for example, or a scholarly book (which is not so easy to define in itself as the boundaries are extremely porous). Our research at 1science and Science-Metrix indicates that there are more than 29 million articles published in peer-reviewed journals which can be downloaded for free on the public web (including part of ResearchGate, excluding all of Academia.edu and omitting SciHub). We have evidence there are more than 4 million papers published in peer-reviewed journals every year now (more than twice as many than currently indexed in the Web of Science), and 50% of these are freely downloadable after about 12 months. Eric Archambault C. 1.514.518.0823 eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com<mailto:eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com> science-metrix.com & 1science.com -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org<mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org> [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: October 23, 2017 7:55 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org<mailto:goal@eprints.org>> Subject: [GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access September 30, 2017 In brief: best guesstimate - there are approximately 70 million OA documents today (subset of BASE's 115 million, about 60% OA), with OA documents at BASE growing at a rate of about 1,800 OA documents per day. Where do these come from? Thousands of OA archives - with PubMedCentral the largest by far at 4.5 million articles and active participation by thousands of journals. This quarter by the numbers the DOAJ team set a new record with a net growth of 689 journals of 7.7 titles per day. However, percentage wise the most remarkable quarterly growth was all about archives, with BioRxiv and SocRXiv topping the growth list by percentage, and as usual several sections of Internet Archive well up on the growth list. On an annual basis, Directory of Open Access Books was the fastest growing in terms of both # of books and # of publishers. Details: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2017/10/dramatic-growth-of-open-access.htm To download data: https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/dgoa Happy Open Access Week! -- Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor | Professeure agrégé 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<mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org<mailto:GOAL@eprints.org> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org<mailto:GOAL@eprints.org> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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