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Green and Gold Open Access Percentages and Growth, by Discipline Posted: 16 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT   Green and Gold Open Access Percentages and Growth, by Discipline Yassine Gargouri et al. Most refereed journal articles today are published in subscription journals, accessible only to subscribing institutions, hence losing considerable research impact. Making articles freely accessible online ("Open Access," OA) maximizes their impact. Articles can be made OA in two ways: by self-archiving them on the web (“Green OA”) or by publishing them in OA journals (“Gold OA”). We compared the percent and growth rate of Green and Gold OA for 14 disciplines in two random samples of 1300 articles per discipline out of the 12,500 journals indexed by Thomson-Reuters-ISI using a robot that trawled the web for OA full-texts. We sampled in 2009 and 2011 for publication year ranges 1998-2006 and 2005-2010, respectively. Green OA (21.4%) exceeds Gold OA (2.4%) in proportion and growth rate in all but the biomedical disciplines, probably because it can be provided for all journals articles and does not require paying extra Gold OA publication fees. The spontaneous overall OA growth rate is still very slow (about 1% per year). If institutions make Green OA self-archiving mandatory, however, it triples percent Green OA as well as accelerating its growth rate. Posted by stevanharnad (who is an author) to oa.mandates oa.green oa.new on Sat Jun 16 2012 at 14:00 UTC | info | related

My book on open access is out. Posted: 15 Jun 2012 04:37 PM PDT   My book on open access is out. plus.google.com "I [Peter Suber] am very happy to announce the publication of my new book, Open Access, from MIT Press. The Kindle edition is available today <http://goo.gl/FQ0Ro>. Digital editions in a dozen other formats will roll out over the summer. The paperback edition is available for pre-order now from MIT Press <http://goo.gl/zkUnZ> and Amazon <http://goo.gl/fXOpU>, and will ship in early August. Before you ask: The book will become OA one year from now. If you can't wait that long, everything I've said in the book I've said in some form or another in an OA article over the years <http://goo.gl/wcwQ>, probably more than once...." Posted by petersuber (who is an author) to oa.intro oa.new on Fri Jun 15 2012 at 23:37 UTC | info | related

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