[GOAL] March 31, 2018 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

The March 31, 2018 Dramatic Growth is now available: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2018/04/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-march.html Highlights this issue: the amazing growth of newcomer bioRxiv and the many OA indicators with growth rates above the background growth of scholarly journals

[GOAL] Published: "Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access"

Dear colleagues, On April 1st, the anthology "Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access" was published, http://litwinbooks.com/open-divide.php. It reflects the seldomly discussed effects and tendencies of Open Access, such as its instrumentalisation for scientific monitoring, its economisat