Archive for June, 2024

Gold Open Access Project: Usage Notes

Thursday, June 20th, 2024

The first notes for GOA24/DIA24 (“GOA9”), and the first note since February.

Gold Open Access 2024 (GOA9)

59 pdf ebooks and no paperbacks.

Dataset: 67 downloads, as far as I can tell (and 68 views at Figshare)

Diamond OA 2024

The big surprise (the power of Peter Suber and Mastodon?): 2,256 PDF ebooks. No paperbacks.

Gold Open Access 8

948 PDF ebooks, one print paperback (plus, of course, the copy I purchased)

Dataset: 264 downloads (and 664 views at Figshare)

Diamond OA 2023

435 PDF ebooks, no paperbacks.

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Diamond OA 2024 is now available

Tuesday, June 18th, 2024

I’m delighted to announce that Diamond OA 2024: The World of No-Fee Open Access Publishing is now available as a free PDF or a nominally-priced ($8 US, as low as GBP6.25 or as high as CAD$13) trade paperback.

And that’s it for GOA9: I’ll provide stats in the next week or two and periodically through the rest of the year, and look at GOA10 in a few months. The bad news: diamond OA seems to be slipping somewhat. The good: still more than 400,000 articles in 2023.

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