Dramatic growth of open access

I expand on Matt's remark about the difficulty of even
obtaining 
basic data.

It would be very useful if the publishers of journals with 
occasional OA articles were to post lists of those
published. 
Asssuming that they engage in such a manner of publication
in the 
hope of providing at least some OA, they ought to want to
display 
their success.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodmanliu.edu

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A better approach would be to analyse the number of
immediate 
open access articles published year on year. This is
challenging 
to do, not least because several years on it is very
difficult to 
be sure what *was* open access at the moment of publication.
But 
that is really the metric that counts.

Matthew Cockerill, Ph.D.
Publisher
BioMed Central ( http://www.biomedcentra
l.com/ )
bond, UK

Email: mattbiomedcentral.com