Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 1 DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 2 Thanks for inviting me to The happiest country in the world! news-2.html

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Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 5 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

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 6 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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Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 10 Journals by country in DOAJ USA the biggest Brazil the second Where is Russia?

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 11 Latin American journals by country

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Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 13 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

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 14 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.

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 15 Publisher spread – (May 2009): 20 Publishers with 10+ Journals 50 Publishers with 5+ Journals 1800 Publishers with 1 Journal! 2200 Publishers in total

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 16 Languages in DOAJ Journals with articles in Spanish: 900+ Journals with articles in Portuguese: 500 Catalan: 50+

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 17 Future development and activities : Statistical packages Journal of the month Doaj info site Advisory board Continuing long term archiving More metadata on article level

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 18 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

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 19 Facilities: For authors: a special information site: 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

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 20 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 institution’s/your company’s homepage. Subscription to 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

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 21 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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Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 23 SPARC Europe award

Sonja Brage Lund University Libraries, Head Office 24 Thanks for listening! And now questions?

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