The 2014 year end Dramatic Growth of Open Access is now available. Highlighted are 30 indicators of growth beyond the background growth of scholarly works per se - in many cases, far beyond: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2014/12/2014-dramatic-growth-of-open-access-30.html
OA advocates are encouraged to refocus on the vision of OA in 2015 - the real goal of an unprecedented public good which is all too easy to forget in the minutiae of implementation. Although the DGOA series focuses on the numbers, a special mention goes out to India's recent OA policy announcement as a new model for the world - including the best of funding agency policy to date plus the important inclusion of the Declaration on Research Assessment, the instruction to evaluators to focus on the quality of scholarly works and ignore the substitutes like impact factor. A Happy OA for 2015 to all! -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
