Updated figures on the full-text stored at CORE, today.

CORE is now stated as locally holding 9m OA items in full-text, with 1.83m of those said to be newly-added full-text OA articles extracted from “Elsevier, Springer, Frontiers and PLoS”. Interestingly, the 9m total is described as being made up of both “full-text articles” and other “research outputs”. As such it would be useful to have a pie-chart of the relative proportions. What proportion of the headline 9m are “research outputs” in a form other than full-text articles, and what types predominate among those “research outputs”?

Update: two weeks later at the end of the December the final figures were tallied, and CORE’s blog announced a total of 10.03m in “full text” for 2018…