The SciELO Brazil collection of OA journals has a new server to meet sharply increasing demand. (Thanks to Jean-Claude Guédon.) From the announcement in the VHL Newsletter (August 2006):
The SciELO Brazil collection has a new connectivity and server platform providing access to articles of over 160 titles of quality journals in all fields of knowledge. This change of platform aims to meet the increasing demand of access to the SciELO Brazil collection and render quality services with high availability.
The access to SciELO Brazil collection articles has exponentially grown in the past two years, with a monthly average of 5.2 million articles visited from March to June 2006, with the record of 6 million visits accounting reached in May, 2006, which means 1500 GigaBytes transfered in a single month. In this same period, there were peaks of over 350 simultaneous accesses....
The exponential growth of the access began on October 2003, when it started to be accessed through Google and since March 2006 it reached a higher level. The main reason of this increase is due to the start in February 2006 of the indexing by Google Scholar of SciELO colletions published in open access....
[Despite the upgrade] the continous increase in the access is already demanding a new update which should happen until the end of this year in order to server 10 million articles accessed forseen in the first semester of 2007.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/05/2006 07:46:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
