Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

eifl General Assembly 2010

in Lund, Sweden

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Background Initiated during the first NCSC in

Lund/Copenhagen 2002 Initially funded by Open Society

Institute and co-funded by SPARC Project started in January 2003 Service launched in May 2003 with

300+ journals

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Purpose of DOAJ making it easier for

aggregators & libraries to integrate OA-journals data in their services

OA-publishers to get their journals visible readers to find OA-material authors to find a journal to publish in OA

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Services and current projects Uploading of metadata so that the

journal becomes searchable on article level

SPARC Europe seal for OA journals

The long term preservation project

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Selection criteria OA journals with full text Peer review or editorial control Research journals Academic/scholarly community the main target

group Active journals No embargo ISSN

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Open Access – the definition: Open access journals = journals that have a

business model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.

Extensive usage rights: From the BOAI definition of "open access" = the right of "users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles"

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Candidates for inclusion: Suggestions from the community - +150

per month Collecting information for evaluation

against the criteria Evaluating – decision – inclusion Continiously monitoring for compliance

– weeding uncompliant journals

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Benefits of being indexed in DOAJ Global visibility Increased usage, citation, impact Integrated in OPAC’s in many, many

libraries Several service providers are linking to

DOAJ Feedback from publishers indicate that

DOAJ is among the top 5 referral sites

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Direct usage from the DOAJ-site: Every month visits from 160+ countries Redirected request constantly above 1

million Visits from OAI-harvesters substantial

However the indirect usage most important

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Developing countries in DOAJ Journals from 50 % of the Asian countries

are in DOAJ There are about 30 Central and Latin

American countries and 23 of them have journals in DOAJ

Out of 50 African countries,14 have got journals in DOAJ

33 % of the eifl countries have journals in DOAJ

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Journals in DOAJ per continent

North America28%

South America18%Africa

1%

Europe40%

Asia10%

Oceania3%

North America South America Africa Europe Asia Oceania

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Future development and activities: Statistical packages DOAJ new interface Advisory board Continuing long term archiving More metadata on article level

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Future development and activities: Agreements regarding pre-evaluation of

journals Couperin, France – in place ANKOS, Turkey (in the pipeline) ISTIC, China (MOU)

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Functionality: For end-users: search by journal, articles, country,

language, keywords For the community: an available suggestion form for OA

journals For aggregators and libraries: they can harvest data to their

services by using an OAI-PMH metadata format For journal owners: DOAJ is powered by an administration

tool allowing journal owners to add metadata on article level

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How are we funded? By sponsors and members, benefits:

Acknowledgement as a DOAJ Member on the DOAJ Membership Pages, including link to your/your institution’s/your company’s homepage

Subscription to e-mail list for DOAJ members Access to list of removed titles The right to use the DOAJ membership in marketing activities Contributing to the Open Access movement

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Members as of July 2010: 19 Individuals 92 Libraries, Universities & Research Centers from 21 countries 15 Library Consortia & Associations 4 Aggregators and other Service Providers

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SPARC Europe award

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Thanks for listening!

And now questions?

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