OA by the numbers

From OAD

• This is a list of numbers measuring the status or growth of open access.
• The format is: Number. Date [last checked or verified]. Annotation. Please use links whenever possible so that users can verify or update the numbers.
• Peter Suber started this list on Wikipedia in early 2005. Wikipedians deleted it twice and then chopped it into pieces. We want to restore and update it here on OAD, but had to start with an old version of the file. We need your help to update the numbers already on the list and add new numbers telling the rest of the story.

Contents 1 OA journals 2 OA archives and archiving 3 OA books 4 OA policies 5 Journal pricing crisis

[edit] OA journals

• 3,358. May 13, 2008. The number of peer-reviewed OA journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

• 504. February 5, 2006. Number of institutional members of BioMed Central.

• 145. February 5, 2006. Number of institutional members of the Public Library of Science. PLoS doesn't provide this number; users have to count the institutions listed.

• 14.7. August 4, 2006. Impact factor for PLoS Biology, the highest for the category of general biology. See the PLoS Biology information page.

• 14. February 12, 2006. Number of journal declarations of independence.

[edit] OA archives and archiving

• 1,137. May 13, 2008. Number of OA, OAI-compliant repositories listed by OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories).

• 1,060. May 13, 2008. Number of OA, OAI-compliant repositories listed by ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories).

• 1,146. December 31, 2006. Number of OA, OAI-compliant repositories listed by OpenArchive.edu.

• 962 / 16,154,594 records. May 13, 2008. Numbers of OA, OAI-compliant repositories / records harvested (indexed and searched) by OAIster.

• 904 / 19,041,129 records. May 13, 2008. Numbers of OA, OAI-compliant repositories / records harvested (indexed and searched) by ScientificCommons.org.

• 477,426. May 13, 2008. Number of articles on deposit at arXiv. The number is posted on the upper left corner of the arXiv home page.

• 2,349,343. May 13, 2008. Number of free fulltext articles on deposit at PubMed Central. To update this number, search PubMed with a limit to "Links to Free Full Text " from the Entrez PubMed search box.

• 8,413,363 May 13, 2008. Total number of articles in Entrez PubMed with "Links to Full Text".

• 7,746 May 13, 2008. Number of fulltext items on deposit at E-LIS, the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies

• 739,135. February 6, 2006. Number of full-text articles harvested from the Web by Citeseer. Figure at the bottom of Citeseer's home page.

• 360,000. February 6, 2006. Number of full-text articles archived at the CERN document server.

• 10. March 15, 2005. Average number of minutes it takes to self-archive one article, according to Les Carr and Stevan Harnad, Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving.

• 3.8. January 2006. Rate of compliance (as a percentage) with the NIH request that articles based on NIH-funded research be deposited in PubMed Central, during the first eight months of the NIH public access policy (May 2 - December 31, 2005), according to the NIH's progress report to Congress.

[edit] OA books

• 19,000. August 26, 2006. Number of OA books in Project Gutenberg.

• 35. February 12, 2006. Number of institutions contributing content to the Open Content Alliance. The OCA doesn't provide this number; users must count the number of institutions listed.

• 6. August 26, 2006. Number of universities contributing content to the Google Book Search Library Project.

• 92. February 15, 2006. Percentage of books not generating revenues for their publishers or copyright holders, according to Daniel Clancy, Engineering Director for the Google Book Search Project, in a talk at Stanford University, summarized by James Jacobs.

[edit] OA policies

• 62.5. May 21, 2008. Percentage of surveyed non-OA journals permitting authors to self-archive their postprints, according to Eprints statistics.

• 91.2. May 21, 2008. Percentage of surveyed non-OA journals permitting authors to self-archive their preprints, postprints, or both, according to Eprints statistics.

• 31. October 11, 2006. Number of research funding agencies willing to pay article processing fees on behalf of grantees who publish in fee-based OA journals, according to BioMed Central's Summary of funding agency policies on open access.

• 12. October 11, 2006. Number of research funding agencies to encourage or require grantees to deposit the results of their research in OA repositories, according to BioMed Central's Summary of funding agency policies on open access.

• 81. May 2005. Percentage of authors who would "willingly" comply with a mandate from their funder or employer to self-archive their research articles, according to Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown, Open access self-archiving: An author study.

• 115. September 7, 2006. Number of presidents and provosts of U.S. colleges and universities endorsing the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), which would mandate open access to publicly-funded research. (New signatures are invited.)

• 18. February 5, 2006. Number of research institutions signing the ROARMAP.

• 7. August 26, 2006. Number of research institutions mandating OA to their research output, according to the ROARMAP.

• 5. August 26, 2006. Number of funding agencies mandating OA to the research they fund, according to the ROARMAP.

• 3,968 / 338. February 5, 2006. Numbers of individual / institutional signatories to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

• 151. March 3, 2006. Number of institutional signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge.

• 69. February 12, 2006. Number of institutional members of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. The ATA doesn't provide this number; users have to count the institutions listed.

• 30. April 14, 2006. Nations with Creative Commons licenses customized for local law. CC doesn't provide this number; users have to count the nations listed.

• 28. June 20, 2003. Number of participants signing the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.

[edit] Journal pricing crisis

• 227 / 64. Percentage increases in journal prices (serial unit cost) / inflation rate (consumer price index) from 1986 to 2002, according to ARL statistics.