Scholarly information on the open web and open access
Have you ever wondered how many scholarly documents can be located via the public web? Two computer science researchers from the University of Pennsylvania set out to tackle this daunting task.
In a study recently published in PLOS ONE, Khasba and Giles (2014) report that “at least 114 million English-language scholarly documents” can be found via the open web and approximately 27 million (or 24%) of these items are open access.