DOAJ

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• DOAJ
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• http//www.doaj.org

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• Thanks for inviting me to
• The happiest country in the world!
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• Services current projects
• Libraries and other organizations download the
  content of DOAJ to their catalogues
• 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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• Journals by country in DOAJ
• http//www.doaj.org/doaj?funcbyCountry
• USA the biggest
• Brazil the second
• Where is Russia?

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• Latin American journals by country

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• The importance of the editor
• Hrcak. Portal of scientific journals of Croatia
• Bentham. US but legally from the United Arab
  Emirates
• Libertas Academica from New Zeeland

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• Redalyc Scielo
• Redalyc and Scielo are very important concerning
  Spanish language and Portuguese language
  journals.
• Redalyc provides us with more than 160
  journals and Scielo with 200.

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• Publisher spread (May 2009)
• 20 Publishers with 10 Journals
• 50 Publishers with 5 Journals
• 1800 Publishers with 1 Journal!
• 2200 Publishers in total

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• Languages in DOAJ
• Journals with articles in Spanish 900
• Journals with articles in Portuguese 500
• Catalan 50

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• Future development and activities
• Statistical packages
• Journal of the month
• Doaj info site
• Advisory board
• Continuing long term archiving
• More metadata on article level

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• Cooperation with ISTIC China
• Cooperation with The Institute of Scientific
  and Technical Information of China (ISTIC)
• DOAJ metadata will be disseminated through ISTIC
  services
• Reviewing and adding Chinese OA-journals into
  DOAJ incl. production of article metadata
• Promotion of OA Journals within China
• Translation of the DOAJ site into Chinese

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• Facilities
• For authors a special information site
• http//www.doaj.org/doaj?funcforAuthors
• For readers 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 for sponsors and members
• Acknowledgement as a DOAJ Member on the DOAJ
  Membership Pages, including link to your/your
  institutions/your companys 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 September 2009
• 12 Individuals
• 82 Libraries, Universities Research Centers
  from 21 countries
• 13 Library Consortia Associations
• 3 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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