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Statistics: Growth in Use of the CC-BY License by Selected Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Members

Filed by on March 16, 2013

From the OASPA:

A total of 252,418 articles were published with the CC-BY license during the period shown [in chart].

Data was supplied by the following members of OASPA as number of CC-BY articles per year since implementation of the license by that publisher:

BioMed Central (2000-2012 which includes SpringerOpen 2011-2012), Hindawi (2006-2012), PLOS (2003-2012), Frontiers (2012 only), Leibniz-Institute for Psychology Information/ZPID (2012 only), American Institue of Physics (2011-2012), MDPI (2008-2012), ecancermedicalscience (2007-2012)

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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