[Oa-italia] "Drammatica" crescita dell'OA in giugno 2007

[Maria Cassella]

Mi scuso con gli iscritti per questa segnalazione in inglese che non ho 
il tempo di tradurre e sintetizzare per voi, ma sono certa che molti 
leggono bene l'inglese e poi i numeri parlano piu' di ogni altra cosa.
Saluti a tutti
MC

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>       Dramatic Growth of Open Access June 2007 Update
>
> The Dramatic Growth of Open Access continues, on both the gold (open 
> access publishing) and green (open access self-archiving) roads. Some 
> noteworthy highlights: PubMedCentral, the world's largest open access 
> archive, noted a significant milestone on June 21: the millionth 
> article <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/pmcmillion.html> (thanks to Peter 
> Suber on Open Access News  
> <http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2007_06_17_fosblogarchive.html#6349592961301768282>.  
> An OAIster search now includes close to 12 million items, an increase 
> of over 4 million items over the past year. The number of repositories 
> continues to increase; OAIster searches include more than 200 more 
> repositories than one year ago. Scientific Commons now includes more 
> than 12 million items, by more than *6 million authors*.
>
> The Directory of Open Access Journals lists 2,731 titles, an increase 
> of 439 titles from June 2006, or an average of 1.2 new titles per 
> calendar day. According to Jan Sczepanski on Liblicense at 
> http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0706/msg00135.htm  
> <http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Ellicense/ListArchives/0706/msg00135.html>, 
> there were over 13,000 open access journals listed on Elektronische 
> Zeitschriftenbibliotek - Electronic Journals Library. Growth rates of 
> open access archives tracked range from 14% over the past year 
> (arXiv), 33% for rePEC, and 54% for E-LIS and the Canadian Association 
> of Research Libraries (CARL) Metadata Harvester.

La notizia e' tratta da The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

> http://www.poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/

Saluti a tutti
Maria Cassella



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