Again, all things considered, this week went better than it might have. Fatigue slowed me down, but not as much as feared–and, with luck, the treatments end on Monday, giving me back about two hours a day and maybe, eventually, some energy. I find the Varian TrueBeam fascinating, but will be happy not to see it any more.
Before the counts, yet another reminder: I need feedback about whether/what to do with countries, and specifically whether a Diamond OA book makes sense. See https://walt.lishost.org/2023/02/goa8-new-direction-on-couIntries/. At the moment I’m inclined to think Diamond Open Access 2022: The Landscape of No-Fee OA (current working title) may be worthwhile (prob. a fairly hefty book, free PDF as always, production-priced paperback), but I could sure use some additional feedback/support for this entirely optional (and unpaid) extra.
The structure of the book is straightforward: an overall Big Numbers chapter, some key contrasts between diamond and gold in general, chapters on journals by article volume, publisher category, subject segments and subjects–all similar to but shorter than those in GOA7. Then, the bulk of the book, chapters for each region and each country with at least ten diamond journals, with summary notes on other countries. To get a pretty good idea what those chapters would/will look like, download Gold Open Access by Country 2015-2020 and look at pages 157-160.
The numbers
1,000 more journals checked.
The overall counts at this point:
14,200 journals checked, of which
12,578 published 1,248,240 articles in 2022 and
13,189 published 1,148,827 articles in 2021.
The rest of the numbers:
- Fee versus diamond/no-fee: 4,794 journals with fees, 9,406 without. (Notice that only ten of the mWalt at Random ost recent 1,000 journals have fees? That’s university publishing, especially Latin America.)
- New vs. continuing: 1,708 newly-added, 12,492 continuing (including all of the “x”status below).
- Status code:
12,651 “a”–clean.
343 “bi”– inactive (no articles since at least 2020).
57 “bx”–done but at a different URL.
89 “xd”–defunct, no articles since at least 2016.
217 “xm”–malware (but not last year).
38 “xn”–not an OA journal (including those removed this year but before I got to them) and ones suddenly requiring a login.
559 “xx”–unreachable or unworkable.
And the two oddities:
200 “xm2”–malware, also malware last year
46 “xx2”–unreachable or unworkable, as was true last year. - Ease of article counting:
“d” 7,813: easiest, taken directly from DOAJ (sometimes with 2022 count modified)
“w” 919: easy, journal website provides direct numbers at either volume or issue number (this number was WRONG last week–I used “f” by accident).
“f” 3,939: middling; numbers calculated using Find function for constants (e.g. “doi.” or “pdf”)
“c” 496: slowest; articles counted manually. - Why the counts of “ease of…” don’t add up to total journals counted: all xd and bi cases, not quite all other non-a cases. If I couldn’t count them at all…
This week: All universities, a bunch more Spanish in Latin America and Spain, then starting the Portuguese in Brazil and Portugal.
