DOAJDirectory of Open Access

Journals

Berlin March 2006

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Agenda:• DOAJ intro • Selection criteria• Selection process

Observations and trends

• eJournal start-up recommendations

• http://www.doaj.org

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DOAJ intro:• Project started january 2003• Service launched May 2003 with

300+ journals• Status March 2006 2100+ journals

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DOAJ intro:• A collection of peer reviewed open

access journals• All disciplines • All languages• One interface

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Aim:

Increase visibility and access= Increased usage

= Increased citation = Increased impact

= Increased usage...

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Definitions:

Open Access Journal: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

Quality Control: The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included

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Definitions:

Research Journal: Journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community

Periodical: A serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings

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Selection Criteria:

Coverage: Subject: all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered Types of resource: scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text Acceptable sources: academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources are all acceptable Level: the target group for included journals should be primarily researchers Content: a substantive part of the journal should consist of research papers All content should be available in full text All languages

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Selection Criteria:

Access: All content freely available Free user registration online is acceptable Open Access without delay (e.g. no embargo period)

Quality control: for a journal to be included it should exercise quality control on submitted papers through: an editoreditorial board a peer-review system

Periodical: The journal should have an ISSN

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Selection policy•Subjects = all•Languages = all•Resource types = periodicals•Target group = researchers

•Cost = none for the user

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Selection process: SuggestionFirst check by librarian Mail to journal owner/publisher/journal

contact requesting informationAnswer from journal ownerSecond check by librarian

Either DecisionOr second mail to journal owner requesting

further information …

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Selection process:monitoring listservsmonitoring sites e.g. JStage, SciELOdirect information from journal owners

First check by librarian

Mail to journal owner/publisher/journal contact Answer from journal owner

Second check by librarian

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eJournal start-up recommendations:• Have a business plan

• Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Societies http://www.soros.org/openaccess/scholarly_guide.shtml

• Make sure all information is available on your web site

• Contact other journals for advice• Contact DOAJ for advice

Go for it!

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Journal owner advice service

Author service

How to…

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More information

• http://www.doaj.org/

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