Re: The self-archiving sweepstakes

From: Eberhard R. Hilf <hilf_at_ISN-OLDENBURG.DE>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 22:52:04 +0200

    Prior AmSci Topic Thread:
    "The self-archiving sweepstakes" (began February 7, 2003)
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2662.html

Dear Colleagues,

It would be nice to get an estimate of the growth of the number of Open
Access scientific documents (S. Harnad: "immediate, permanent,
toll-free, webwide full-text access online").

Who has an estimate?

In physics alone we have some 2,000,000 such documents
from institutional servers

    http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/physdoc.html,

of which only some 8% have some metadata and some of them are presented by
an OAi MPH-compliant Data provider.

Thus, just counting the OA-OAi data provider is grossly underestimating
what is going on.

In addition it would be good if the very instructive and stimulating
Institutional OA Archives Registry
      http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all
were updated to get current data after its apparent last update of 2004.

A synoptic website on OA-information collected (in German) you find at
http://zugang-zum-wissen.de

Eberhard Hilf
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