Signs of grassroot activities

Signs of grassroot activities with respect to direct publishing, peer review services, and diamond journal initiatives at Dutch universities; results of a mini tour of university web sites and preprint statistics.

For direct publishing, a.k.a. preprint publishing, there seemed to be no readily available statistics on the internet. As Dimensions includes preprints, CWTS colleague Ludo Waltman could compile statistics on journal articles that were published as preprints first. The result is presented on page 2.

For peer review services I consulted the web site of Peer Community In, currently the most robust service in this domain with 1900 reviewers, covering 16 disciplines. I selected the reviewers from the Netherlands and made a breakdown by the Dutch universities. The result is presented on pages 3 and 4.

For Dutch initiatives in diamond journals I consulted Openjournals.nl and generated the list shown on page 5.