Highlights
Universal access to all knowledge will be one of humanity’s greatest
achievements. We are already well on the way! from Stewart Brand's:
Brewster Kahle's 30 November Long Now Talk For fun and inspiration,
check out the Internet Archive for the more than 3 million books
(adding 1,000 titles per day), 100,000 concerts and 1 million
recordings (3 new bands uploading / day), 600,000 movies, and of
course the web itself. Thanks, Internet Archive and Brewster Kahle -
and wow!
2011 has been another outstanding year for the growth of open access
to scholarly resources. Highlights this quarter include the remarkable
growth of the Directory of Open Access Journals, with an increase of
more than 600 titles this quarter alone so far, for a growth rate of 9
titles per day. On November 26, RePEC reached a major milestone. There
are now One million works available online through RePEC (Nov. 26,
2011). According to the Sherpa services blog, 60% of journals allow
immediate self-archiving of post peer-reviewed articles and the Open
Access Directory just sailed past our 2 millionth view of the OAD.
From my perspective, open access has entered a new phase, one in
which we are beginning to see the challenges of success. How can we
track all these resources and make it easy for people to find and use
them? The emerging open access marketplace for commercial scholarly
publishers appears to have attracted what Beall calls predatory open
access publishers as I have commented on here and
here. As we begin to address these challenges, it is also timely to
begin other overdue discussions, such as Dissension in the Open Access
Ranks on CC Licenses.
Details and links to series and data download can be found here:
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenges-of-success-dramatic-growth.htmlcheers,
Heather Morrison, MLIS
Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
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