Data for the above chart is available for download: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2014 A total of 543,611 articles were published with the CC-BY license in open access-only journals by members of OASPA during the period shown above, with 141,232 of those being published in 2014. OASPA members were invited to share their data to… Read full article >

Data for the above chart is available for download: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to 2013 A total of 399,854 articles were published with the CC-BY license by members of OASPA during the period shown above, with 120,972 of those being published in 2013 alone. These numbers only include articles that were published in journals whose entire content… Read full article >

Data for the above chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth A total of 252,418 articles were published with the CC-BY license during the period shown above. 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… Read full article >

At OASPA, one of the criteria for membership is that a publisher must use a liberal license that encourages the reuse and distribution of content. We strongly encourage (but currently do not require) the use of the CC-BY license wherever possible.  Given recent moves in the UK by the Wellcome Trust and the Research Councils… Read full article >