After monitoring what's happening here: Don't expect many more tweets here at all. Follow waltcrawford on Mastodon and/or Walt at Random [ for GOA8 updates.

A reminder: I'm not here. The account remains only to keep someone else from claiming the username. Find waltcrawford on Mastodon for OA stuff, FB otherwise. Use hashtag goa8 to follow this project. Bye!

New GOA7 usage statistics:

Posted GOA8 decisions and preliminary schedule at

If Twitter goes away, there won't be special GOAJ accounts elsewhere. Follow GOAJ on Walt at Random (, and to some extent on waltcrawford at facebook and [possibly] Mastodon. But Walt at Random is safest if least frequent.

@JEFrantsvag And I've approved the comment and left a response. Thanks.

@JEFrantsvag I'll look at the comment later today. My plan was to use DOAJ figures (when it's feasible to count directly) if previous-year DOAJ figures were consistent with my direct counting.

At this point, I don't see lots of difference between OA publishers and traditional/toll publishers. Is the difference worth noting anymore? I don't know. [Of course, some OA publishers are now part of traditional publishing groups.]

NOTE: While I have no plans to leave Twitter, if it does become too bad to stick with, I won't create a separate GOA account elsewhere. You can always find key stuff at my blog, Walt at Random,

STEM pt 2: 2018, $1,039/article for 289,522 articles (31% no-fee); $1,510 for 199,232 fee articles. 2017, $1,011/article for 225,666 articles (33% no-fee); $1,507 for 151,363 fee articles. Draw your own conclusions. And that's it for OA week.