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Open Access: Quick Stats, Fast Facts

Posted August 30, 2007 6:10 PM in Scholarly Communications

How much open access is there already? Answer: lots!!

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists over 2,800 titles, and is growing at a rate of more than one title per calendar day.
http://www.doaj.org

An OAIster search encompasses more than 12 million records in over 800 repositories.
http://www.oaister.org/

Scientific Commons includes more than 16 million publications from over 6 million authors in over 800 repositories.
http://www.scientificcommons.org/

The world's largest open access archive is PubMed Central, which exceeded the one million mark in June 2007.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov


Re-posted with permission from
Heather Morrison, MLIS
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
Originally posted on Aug. 18, 2007

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