[Forwarding from the DOAJ, via the AmSci OA Forum. --Peter Suber.] Directory of Open Access Journals reaches new milestones – now *7 years* of operation, now more than *5 000* journals, now more than *2 000* journals searchable on article level, very soon more than *400 000* articles searchable!
- Aggregating and disseminating scholarly Open Access journals since may 2003! - Developing Open Access Journals by means of promoting open re-use policies – the SPARC Europe SEAL<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=faq#seal>! - Working for long term archiving of Open Access Journals<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=longTermArchiving>in cooperation with the National Library of the Netherlands <http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html> – project sponsored by the Swedish Library Association<http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/>! - During the years sponsored by Open Society Institute<http://www.soros.org/>, SPARC <http://www.arl.org/sparc/>, SPARC Europe<http://www.sparceurope.org/>, EBSCO <http://www.ebscohost.com/>, INASP <http://www.inasp.info/>, Axiell<http://www.axiell.se/home>, National Library of Sweden <http://www.kb.se/hjalp/english/> & Swedish Library Association <http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/>. We are very grateful for the contributions from our sponsors. - Supported by the community via the DOAJ membership program<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership>. We are very grateful for the support from individuals, universities, research institutions, library consortia and aggregators. The contributions have made it possible for us to do the work that we are doing. However there is much more work to be done – therefore if you, your university or your library consortium doesn´t have a DOAJ membership, please consider becoming a member. We need your support to do more than we already are doing. Lars Bjornshauge <[email protected]> Director of Lund University Libraries
