I would question Stevan's estimate that 2.5% of articles are published in OA
journals. While it does indeed look as if 2 - 2.5% of peer reviewed
journals are OA (that is, if all those listed by Lund et al are peer
reviewed), I very much doubt that they carry as many articles as the rest.
This is because OA journals are, almost without exception, relatively new
and extremely long-established journals tend to be far, far, bigger in terms
of issues and articles published per year.
Sally
Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1903 871686 Fax: +44 (0)1903 871457
E-mail: chief-exec_at_alpsp.org
ALPSP Website
http://www.alpsp.org
NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR RECORDS. THANKS!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "American Scientist Open Access Forum"
<american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:18 AM
Subject: Journals > Peer-Reviewed Journals > Open-Access Journals < Open Access
> The exchange, below, about the apparent discrepancy in the estimates of
> the current number of open access journals is resolved as follows:
>
> Bowker's Ulrichsweb http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/ indexes about
> 250,000 serials. Of those 250,000 serials about 10% (24,000) are
> peer-reviewed journals. Of those 24,000 about 2.5% (600) are indexed by
> The Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ which indexes
> only peer-reviewed journals.
>
> Other indices and harvesters such as
> http://www.j-gate.informindia.co.in/
> and
> http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?lang=en
> may index more free online full-text journals than
> http://www.doaj.org/
> but the open-access movement is focussed on *peer-reviewed* journals only,
> as defined in
> http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
> and only peer-reviewed journals are indexed by
> http://www.doaj.org/
>
> And let us also not forget that apart from the 2.5% of yearly articles
> from the 24,000 peer-reviewed journals that are openly accessible because
> they are published in the 600 open-access ("gold") journals to date, at
> least three times as many yearly articles (7.5%) from the 24,000
> peer-reviewed journals are openly accessible because they are
> self-archived by their authors:
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0024.gif
> This current total of 10% open access can immediately be increased to at
> least 55% by self-archiving all the articles in the 55% of peer-reviewed
> journals that are already "green" (or "blue" or "gold"):
>
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Publisher%20Policies.htm
>
> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:50:29 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a_at_yahoo.com>
> > To: sathya <sathya_at_informindia.co.in>
> >
> > From: sathya <sathya_at_informindia.co.in>
> >
> > J-Gate [ http://www.j-gate.informindia.co.in/] indexes open access
> > literature extensively. We index articles from 1,600 journals
> > available free online, and we are the only site doing this in the
> > world. (There are many sites who just put an html page of these
> > journals, but no one does indexing). In the coming years, we plan
> > to harvest e-print sites and index them too on our site.
> >
> > From: Subbiah Arunachalam <subbiah_a_at_yahoo.com>
> >
> > [ The Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ ]
> > lists [only] 600.
> >
> > From: sathya <sathya_at_informindia.co.in>
> >
> > It is possible that [http://www.doaj.org/ is] peer-reviewed journals
> > available free online. This could be 600. I can't separately count
> > peer-reviewed journals in my database.
>
> [The following is from the AmSci Forum's Archive/]
>
> "Re: Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access data"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2522.html
>
> "It seems that (apart from a few well known titles) [of] the 14% free
> access biological periodicals listed by the Electronic Journal Library
> http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?lang=en
> ...some are newsletters, some look like catalogues..."
>
> "Request for journal/article/field statistics from Ulrichs and ISI"
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2972.html
>
> "The total number of refereed (peer-reviewed) journals
> Ulrich's indexes currently (24,116 active was latest figure)"
> [This is about 10% of the total of about 250,000 serials
> indexed by Ulrichs]
> http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/
>
> Stevan Harnad
Received on Thu Dec 11 2003 - 07:59:46 GMT
