Interesting statistics, Stevan. The only countries in the top 10 outside
Europe are Canada, Australia and the USA. No-one from Asia, Africa or South
America. Might this be indifference due to a language barrier (ie English
not being as universal as often supposed)? Many of those in the top 10 are
English-speaking or have a strong multi-lingual orientation. Alternatively,
though not exclusively, it may be a developing world consequence (large
populations relative to scientific enterprises).
Arthur Sale
Tasmania AUSTRALIA
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Here are some statistics you might find interesting, ranking countries
> on their number of registered OA Archives (absolute and relative to
> population size, counting only countries with 4 or more Archives):
>
> Sources:
> Population size: http://www.geohive.com/global/world.php
> OA Archives: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse
>
> Country Archs pop(M) ratio rank
>
> USA (127) 293.1M 43
> UK (54) 60.3M 90 3rd/M*
> Germany (38) 82.4M 46
> Canada (28) 32.5M 86 4th/M
> France (19) 60.4M 32
> Brazil (18) 184.1M 10
> Italy (16) 58.1M 28
> Austral.(16) 19.9M 80 5th/M
> Netherl.(16) 16.3M 98 2nd/M**
> Sweden (12) 7,5M 160 1st/M***
> India (7) 1B 1
> Belgium (5) 10.4M 48
> Portug. (5) 10.5M 48
> Finland (4) 5.2M 77 6th/M
> Denmark (4) 5.4M 75 7th/M
> So Afr. (4) 42.7M 9
> Hungary (4) 10.0M 40
> Spain (4) 40.3M 10
> Japan (4) 127.3M 3
>
> Top 12 for number of OA archives per million population:
>
> (1) Sweden
> (2) Netherlands
> (3) UK
> (4) Canada
> (5) Australia
> (6) Finland
> (7) Denmark
> (8) Belgium
> (9) Portugal
> (10) Germany
> (11) US
> (12) Hungary
>
> Top (and only) 6 for Registered Self-Archiving Policies
> (1) France
> (2) Germany
> (3) UK
> (4) Australia
> (5) Portugal
> (6) US
> Policy Registry: http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php
>
> Country ranks for number and ratio of self-archived articles (15%
worldwide):
>
> Partial data for Biology and Social Sciences available here:
>
> http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/analyse_pays.htm
>
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>
> Current national tally of members of American Scientist Open Access Forum:
>
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
tml
>
> Not counted:
>
> 98 COM (International)
> 62 ORG (International)
> 12 NET (International)
>
> By country:
>
> 134 EDU + 10 GOV (United States)
> 129 UK (United Kingdom)
> 47 CA (Canada)
> 31 DE (Germany)
> 22 AU (Australia)
> 21 FR (France)
> 17 IT (Italy)
> 11 IN (India)
> 10 CH (Switzerland)
> 10 CN (China)
> 10 NL (Netherlands)
> 8 JP (Japan)
> 8 PT (Portugal)
> 8 SE (Sweden)
> 6 BR (Brazil)
> 6 FI (Finland)
> 4 BE (Belgium)
> 4 ES (spain)
> 3 DK (Denmark)
> 3 IL (Israel)
> 3 ZA (South Africa)
> 2 AT (Austria)
> 2 HU (Hungary)
> 2 IE (Ireland)
> 2 MX (Mexico)
> 2 NZ (New Zealand)
> 2 SG (Singapore)
> (19 other countries, 1 each)
Received on Sun May 15 2005 - 00:09:24 BST