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An Introduction to the DOAJ Dom Mitchell Community Manager [email protected] EIFL Webinar 11 March 2015.
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An Introduction to the DOAJ
Dom MitchellCommunity Manager
EIFL Webinar 11 March 2015
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Overview What is the DOAJ?
What is our aim?
Search / Browse: by journal, by article, by subject
Our metadata
The new application form
Volunteer for us
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What is DOAJ?
A database listing high quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals
A whitelist, not a blacklist
Journals from ALL disciplines & all languages
A hub for the collection & distribution of metadata to 3rd parties
Developed & hosted on standards-based, open-source software by Cottage Labs()
FREELY available to anyone, in any country, all over the world*
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What is our aim? To be the starting point for all searches for
open access journals or articles
To be relevant internationally, curating partnerships worldwide
To increase visibility and awareness of quality open access journals
Online (social media, online learning environments, collaboration spaces etc.)
Offline (in the labs, in the libraries etc.)
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What is our aim? To involve the community more by increasing our
transparency and sharing information: DOAJ News Service Public consultations Social media
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Advanced Search
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Advanced Search - journals
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Search results - journals
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Search results - journals
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Advanced Search – articles
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Search results - articles
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Subject browsing
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Subject browsing
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Subject browsing
NEW improved subject browser coming in May 2015!
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Our metadata Publisher provided (we are not responsible for errors)
Freely available to use, reuse, copy, distribute etc. in accordance with our CC BY-SA license.
Available via the following methods:
CSV
Spidering/crawling
OAI-PMH
All major aggregators and library databases, journal databases etc.
Coming soon: available via OpenURL, in Google Scholar
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DOAJ's new application form
New form focusses on 3 different themes:
Quality
Openness
The delivery or technical quality
Publishers have to provide much more information to be indexed
Applications are reviewed and assessed in a three-tier process
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DOAJ's new application form
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Old form: 6 questions | New form: 56 questions
Each question asks for a piece of information or data that can act as an indicator of a journal's true intention.
This calls for volunteers: librarian power!
Crowdsourcing model that gets the community directly involved with DOAJ
We are always looking for volunteers in the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Find out more and apply:
A longer form means more work!
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Thanks to all the Consortia, Universities, Libraries and Publishers,
and to our Sponsors for their supporthttp://doaj.org/supportDoaj
