Statistics: Growth in Use of the CC-BY License by Selected Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Members
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)
Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Frontiers, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.