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Peter Suber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Forwarding from the DOAJ. --Peter.] For Immediate Release December 15, 2006 For more information, contact: Lars Björnshauge, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lotte Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lub.lu.se/index.html.en THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS REACHES AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE - NOW THERE ARE 2500 JOURNALS IN THE DOAJ Lund, Sweden As of today the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org) contains 2500 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is still to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, and thereby promote their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in all languages and subject areas will be included in the DOAJ. The selection criteria have been updated based on feedback from users to be more understandable ( http://www.doaj.org/articles/about#criteria). The database records are freely available for reuse in library catalogues and other services and can be harvested by using the OAI-PMH (http://www.openarchives.org/ ), and thereby increase the visibility of the open access journals. We are very happy to see that the usage of the DOAJ is constantly increasing on all parameters. Every month visitors from more than 160 countries are using the service, hundreds of libraries all over the world have included the DOAJ titles in their catalogues and other services, and commercial aggregators are as well benefiting of the service. New titles are added frequently and to ensure that the holding information is correct you have to update your records regularly. We also have to remove titles from DOAJ if they no longer lives up to the selection criteria e.g. during 2006 65 titles has been removed. In October we launched the "For Authors Service" in the DOAJ. The service is a look up service for authors who wants to publish their research as open access. As of today researchers can find information about the "pure" OA journals from DOAJ and about the "hybrid" journals that for a fee allow the authors to publish their research as OA in an otherwise subscription based journal. We are very pleased to see that the usage of this new service is also increasing. For a closer look at the new service go to http://www.doaj.org and choose "For authors" in the menu. DOAJ is or has been supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute ( http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/), along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), (http://www.arl.org/sparc) SPARC Europe, (http://www.sparceurope.org/), BIBSAM, the Royal Library of Sweden (http://www.kb.se) and Axiell (http://www.axiell.se/). If you know of a journal that should be included in the directory, use this form to report it to the directory: http://www.doaj.org//suggest . Information about how to obtain DOAJ records for use in a library catalogue or other service you will find at: http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions#metadata. Thank you for your interest and support! Lotte Jorgensen Lars Björnshauge Regards, Lotte Lotte Jorgensen Lund University Libraries, Head Office P.O.Box 134, SE-221 00 LUND, Sweden Visiting address Tornavägen 9B, Lund Tel: 046-222 34 31 Fax: 046-222 36 82 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.
