In my mind the need for systematic scientometric data for the open-access literature and also for the OAI-compliant literature as well as the whole literature is unquestionable.
I wonder whether a significant first step should not be an effort to have more open-access journals act as OAI-compliant data providers? I have the impression that many of the 3.000 open-access journals are *not* OAI data providers. If they made such a move one would have 300.000 openly accessible full text peer-reviewed articles every year in the OAI system and that would be a very interesting starting point for the scientometric time-series. Would it be feasible to ask BOAI to undertake such a campaign? After all this would be just a bridge between BOAI-1 and BOAI-2. Or am I wrong in my hypothesis? Cheers, Imre Simon By the way, SciELO Brazil has 93 open access full text peer-reviewed (brazilian) journals on the Internet: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_alphabetic&lng=en&nrm=iso : Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:38:12 +0000 : From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> : Subject: Re: Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access data : : On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Andrew Odlyzko wrote: : : > To second what some others have written, there are surely far : > more than 200 peer-reviewed open-access journals. Just in : > mathematics alone there appear to be over 50 (if one merges : > the two lists at <http://www.emis.de/journals/index.html> : > and <http://www.ams.org/mathweb/mi-journals2.html>). : : Dear colleagues, : : I accept that 200/20,000 (1%) was an under-estimate of the current ratio : of open-access/total peer-reviewed journals! : : Let the guesstimate instead be 3000/20,000 (15%) -- or even higher! : : But now can I repeat my suggestion that we do need to perform : the finer-grained time-series analysis I sketched, to estimate and : extrapolate the relative size and growth-rate of open-access via BOAI-1 : (self-archiving) and via BOAI-2 (open-access journals), within and across : disciplines -- and also to answer the very significant question of where : in the quality-hierarchy the respective open-access growth is occurring. : : The clearer picture such an analysis will provide of where the growth : regions are, which way they are growing, and how long they are likely : to take to approach 100% can surely only be helpful to us in planning : our future strategy and deploying our energy and resources. : : Stevan Harnad
