Archive for April, 2018

GOAJ2: April 2018 update

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Here’s how things are going for GOAJ2: Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2016 and The Countries of OAWorld 2011-2016 and related stuff (all linked to from the project home page), through April 30, 2018 [noting that most of the last day of each month is missing because of how statistics are done]:

  • The dataset: 427 views, 84 downloads.
  • GOAJ2: 1,568 PDF ebooks (and two paperbacks), plus 1,101 copies of chapters 1-7 (C&I 17.4)
  • Countries: 627 PDF ebooks (no paperbacks)
  • Subject supplement (C&I 17.5): 1,624 copies

Looking at the rest of gold OA (beyond DOAJ), Gray OA 2012-2016 has now been downloaded 2,474 times, while Gray OA 2014-2017: A Partial Followup, released in October 2017, has 1,134 downloads. The respective datasets have 145 downloads and 17 downloads.

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Cites & Insights 18:2 (April 2018) available

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Five months in the making*, it’s ready for downloading at https://citesandinsights.info/civ18i2.pdf: the April 2018 Cites & Insights, volume 18, number 2.

This 44-page issue includes:

The Front: Readership Notes, 2017  pp. 1-2

A belated set of notes on 2017 readership.

Technology: Wikipedia: Oldish Notes  pp. 2-16

Mostly items tagged when I was still tracking Wikipedia more avidly, with most items still (I think) relevant.

Words: Writing, Publishing and Stuff  pp. 16-44

Mostly-older (and still relevant) items about topics word-related topics other than ebooks and print books.

There were no February or March issues. There probably won’t be a May issue.

* Which is to say, part of this issue was written in December 2017, the rest in April 2018.

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