10/25/03 E-ICOLC 5th - Denmark Sara Kjellberg Lund University Libraries Head Office Directory of...

10/25/03 E-ICOLC 5th - Denmark Sara Kjellberg

Lund University LibrariesHead Office

Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ


About us in Lund

• Network organisation• Large project and

development portfolio• Committed to open access

ScieCom (www.sciecom.org)

NCSC (www.lub.lu.se/NCSC2004)

DOAJ (www.doaj.org/)

LU:research (lu-research.lub.lu.se/ )


Scholarly information – some trends

• Self-archiving – Pre- and e-print archives, e.g. ArXiv

(1991)– Institutional archives, e.g.

LU:research– Software developments, Dspace,

Eprints, CDSWare

• ”Open Access” electronic journals


Open Access

Budapest Open Access Initiative, BOAI :

“By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."


An academic library perspective

• Satisfy the information needs of our users – now and in the future

• Highlight alternatives• Initiate and collaborate on new

services and projects• Facilitate institutional archives• Directory of Open Access Journals


Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ

• initiated during the NCSC conference in Lund October 2002

• supported by OSI, Open Society Institute and SPARC

• project started January 2003• service launched 12th of May

2003


Aims and goals

Increase visibility and access

= Increased usage

= Increased citation

= Increased impact

= Increased usage...


Selection criteria

• Agreed upon in the beginning of the project

• Open Access• Quality control measures, the

journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.

• Scientific or scholarly content


Open Access – our definition

We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.

From the BOAI definition of "open access" we take the right of "users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.


Collection policy

Delimitations– Subjects = all– Languages = all– Resource types = periodicals– Target group = researchers

Access– Cost = none for the user– Registration = ok


Describing the journals

• Simple metadata model • Metadata available through OAI-

PMH• Granularity – Journal title level • Library of Congress Classification • Visualisation - subject browsing,

15 top level subjects (mapped from LCC)


Collection

• Start-up phase (SciX www.scix.net )

• Suggestions – enormous response

• Sustainability issues• Editorial group• Collaborative model


Searching and browsing DOAJ

• Simplicity

• Accessability

• Overview


Index page


Search


Browse


Journal information


Some numbers

• No. of journals: 551 (and growing)

• Successful requests (May-September): 898,249

• A lot of countries have requested files from DOAJ e.g.:

Sweden, France, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Norway, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Argentina, Japan, Poland, Brazil, Mexico, India, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Iceland, United States, Switzerland, Chile, Singapore, Ireland, Croatia, Israel, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Portugal, Austria, Malaysia, Hungary, Uruguay, Peru, Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Philippines, Colombia, Slovenia, South Korea, Estonia, Taiwan, Egypt...


Very positive response from journals

“ We've already noticed from our usage statistics that the DOAJ has helped to promote our open-access journals, and we know that each of our journals are extremely appreciative!” Jen Sweezie Project Manager Bioline International


DOAJ: phase 2An article search

service• Contact and open discussion with OA

journals

• Search at article level • Guided harvesting of full text articles

• Increasing OAI-compliancy creates other options in the future

• Facilitate the creation of article-level metadata for journals

• Started September 2003 and will be launched in May 2004

• Supported by OSI, SPARC and BIBSAM


Where do we go from here?

• Network organisation of editors

• Make journals aware of possibilities

• Collaboration


More information

• http://www.doaj.org/

• Suggest a journal:http://www.doaj.org/suggest/

• [email protected]

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