[Amsci Moderator's note: Reply follows below query]
Stevan may kindly clarify if all the 11,000 journals (from 97 publishers)
surveyed so far allow self-archiving. If not does the 84% still hold
good, or has this number also changed with the increase in the number
of journals surveyed. thanks. Arun
REPLY:
Yes, romeo.eprints.org already has an estimate from the
Ulrich's data for 10,673 journals
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html
indicating that the percentage green for the total sample of
97 publishers surveyed to date will be about the same as for the 87
publishers whose journal lists we have alreday collected.
If anything, the final percentage green for the sample of 97 looks
as if it may be somewhat higher than the estimate based on Ulrich's.
See below the journal counts for the 10 publishers for whom we are
still in the process of collecting the individual journal-names)
http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html
I have myself just this minute found and added the number of journals
published by each of the 10 missing publisher, based on their website
listings. Note that the total number of journals will be less than the
Ulrichs estimate (and my prior projection from that estimate to
11,000). The Ulrichs data probably included some double-counts
(journals sold in parts).
The total Romeo sample to date will hence be about 8800 journals.
Note that this intentionally leaves out most of the 1149 gold
journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ),
http://www.doaj.org/
even though all gold journals are also green! The reason is that
these are two different samples, and the DOAJ sample is probably
closer to being the *total* number of gold journals, whereas the
Romeo Green survey is really merely a *sample* -- although it does
already include most of the core journals. (There is an overlap
of a very small number of publishers that are on both lists, e.g.,
BMC.)
Publishers as well as those who know publishers' self-archiving
policies are encouraged to enlarge the Romeo sample by registering
the policy at the SHERPA site
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeoupdate.php
and (please!) also listing the journals at the romeo,eprints site:
http://romeo.eprints.org/corrections.php
Journal counts for the 10 remaining publishers:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (1) (GREEN)
BMJ Publishing Group (30) (GREEN)
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (287) (GRAY)
School of Management, University of Bath (?) (GRAY)
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (4 or 7) (GREEN)
Annual Reviews (37 or 47) (GREEN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (50+) (GREEN)
Australian Computer Society Inc (1) (GREEN)
Australian Academic Press (10) (GREEN) Association for
the Advancement of Computing in Education (8) (GRAY)
Stevan Harnad
Received on Sat Aug 07 2004 - 15:17:48 BST