hi Dirk,
Yes indeed this is dramatic growth! I see that BASE is posting the numbers
on the website, so that I can now add BASE to future editions of Dramatic
Growth.
It is also noteworthy that BASE has sophisticated searching, including
advanced searching, unlike Scientific Commons. What puzzles me though is,
if BASE has fewer repositories harvested than Scientific Commons, why does
Scientific Commons include more publications? (32 million to 21.8 million
for BASE).
This is a topic well worth further exploring; there are now very substantial
resources available, and so the question of best approaches to searching for
documents is very worth of research.
best,
Heather Morrison
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
On 14-Dec-09, at 7:36 AM, Dirk Pieper wrote:
> Hi Heather,
>
> I just want to add to your mail that BASE (www.base-search.net) just
> exceeded
> 1,400 repositories, which means, that Bielefeld Academic Search Engine is
> now
> the biggest OA Search Engine regarding the number of repositories.
>
> This is a 36% increase in 2009 and a roundabout 46% increase regarding the
> number of documents in BASE.
>
> That's dramatic, isn't it?
>
> Best regards
> Dirk
>
>
>
> Am Samstag, 12. Dezember 2009 08:49:45 schrieb Heather Morrison:
> > The December 11, 2009 early year-end edition of the Dramatic Growth of
> > Open Access is now available, at:
> > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/12/dramatic-growth-of-open-acce
> > ss-
> > december.html
> >
> > Highlights include:
> >
> > Strong growth in open access mandates; institutional mandates have
> > tripled since last year.
> > DOAJ is over 4,400 titles, grew by over 700 titles or about 2 titles
> > per day in the last year.
> > OpenDOAR has increased to over 1,500 open access archives.
> > Scientific Commons grew by more than 8 million publications for a
> > total of over 32 million.
> > E-LIS has passed an important milestone of 10 thousand items.
> > More than 16 million books are now freely available under OCA
> > principles or public domain, thanks to the Open Content Alliance.
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Heather Morrison, MLIS
> > Associate Editor, Scholarly and Research Communication
> > http://www.src-online.ca/index.php/src
> > The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
> > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------
> Dirk Pieper
> UB Bielefeld - BASE
> Universitätsstr. 25, D-33615 Bielefeld
> E-mail: dirk.pieper_at_uni-bielefeld.de | Tel.: +49 521 106-4010
> Fax: +49 521 106-4052
>
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