DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals Berlin March 2006

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries Agenda: DOAJ intro Selection criteria Selection process Observations and trends eJournal start-up recommendations

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries DOAJ intro: Project started january 2003 Service launched May 2003 with 300+ journals Status March journals

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries DOAJ intro: A collection of peer reviewed open access journals All disciplines All languages One interface

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries Aim: Increase visibility and access = Increased usage = Increased citation = Increased impact = Increased usage...

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries 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

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries 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

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries 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

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries 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 editor editorial board a peer-review system Periodical: The journal should have an ISSN

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries Selection policy Subjects = all Languages = all Resource types = periodicals Target group = researchers Cost = none for the user

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries Selection process:  Suggestion  First check by librarian  Mail to journal owner/publisher/journal contact requesting information  Answer from journal owner  Second check by librarian Either  Decision Or  second mail to journal owner requesting further information …

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries Selection process:  monitoring listservs  monitoring sites e.g. JStage, SciELO  direct information from journal owners  First check by librarian  Mail to journal owner/publisher/journal contact  Answer from journal owner  Second check by librarian

Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries eJournal start-up recommendations: Have a business plan Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Societies 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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