"As a dynamic
inventory of open access journals, DOAJ has already succeeded
in demonstrating the broad and growing adoption of open access
and has enabled libraries to systematically present
open-access journals to their users," said Rick Johnson,
Director of SPARC. "Now, by adding article-level records, DOAJ
is taking an important next step that will further expand use
of articles published in open access journals. SPARC is proud
to support this ground-breaking
work."
"The DOAJ provides a platform for
open access journals to gain greater visibility and thereby
increase their readership," said Melissa Hagemann, Program
Manager, Open Society Institute. Libraries throughout
the world have thus far been able to add 1,100 peer-reviewed
titles to their collections, and nowhere is this more
important than to libraries in the developing world, where
access to journals is limited due to the high cost of most
titles. With today's launch of phase two of the
Directory, researchers will now be able to search, and have
direct access to, the thousands of articles included within
the DOAJ. OSI is pleased to partner with Lund University
Libraries and SPARC on this innovative project."
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"With this new article level search
functionality we have created an incentive for owners of Open
Access journals to submit article level data to the DOAJ in
order to further increase the visibility, reputation and
impact of their journals", said Lotte Jorgensen, Project
Coordinator for the DOAJ. The goal of the Directory of Open
Access Journals is to increase the visibility and
accessibility of open access scholarly journals, thereby
promoting their increased usage and impact. The directory aims
to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals
that use an appropriate quality control system.
The DOAJ is funded by the Information Program
of the Open Society Institute and Lund University
Libraries, and supported by SPARC (The Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition and BIBSAM (the
Royal Library of Sweden). Information about how to obtain DOAJ
records for use in a library catalogue or other service you
will find here.
The database records are freely available for reuse in other
services and can be harvested by using the OAI-PMH, thus further
increasing the visibility of the journals. The article level
records will be available for harvesting within 2 months.
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