1. Lund University Libraries Head Office Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) & Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) Trends in Education and research: Developing Skills and Communication across Europé UNICA Seminar 18-19 May, 2006 Helsinki Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries

3. The purpose of the DOAJ Making it easier for Open Access Scholarly content to be found, read, used and cited Be a part of the emerging infrastructure of the Open Access Movement

4. DOAJ: making it easier for readers to find OA-material authors to find a journal to publish in OA OA-publishers to get their journals visible Aggregators & Libraries to integrate OA- journals data in their services

5. What we hope to see … Increase visibility and access = Increased usage = Increased citation = Increased impact = Increased usage... etc etc

6. http://www.doaj.org/ –A collection of peer reviewed open access journals –SCOPE: All disciplines – all languages –One interface –Provides search service for end-users –Provides metadata harvesting services based on the OAI-PMH protocol for libraries and other service providers

7. Selection criteria Open Access Quality control measures, the journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control in order to be included in the DOAJ. Scientific or scholarly content

8. Open Access – our definition Oopen access journals = journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. The BOAI definition of "open access" = the right of "users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as a mandatory criteria

9. History: –Initiated during the first Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication in Lund/Copenhagen October 2002 –Initially funded by Open Society Institute and co-funded by SPARC –Project started January 2003 –Service launched 12th of May 2003 with 300+ journals

10. Number of journals listed in the DOAJ May 2003: 300 November 2003: 558 May 2004: 1097 November 2004:1345 May 2005:1601 November 2005:1905 May 2006:2230

12. LanguageNumber of journals receiving articles in that language (September 2005) English1535 Spanish314 Portuguese172 French101 German73 Japanese30 Italian28 Russian19 Turkish13 Catalan6 Croatian4 Czech4 Chinese4

14. Usage of the DOAJ service Every month visits from 150+ countries Requested files increasing Distinct host served increasing Amount of data transferred increasing Visits from OAI-harvesters increasing Number of abstracts presented increasing Number of links to articles followed increasing

20. So far … Global visibility and dissemination of records –Integrated in OPAC´s in many, many libraries –Several service providers are linking into DOAJ –Integrated in the services of aggregators (Ullrichs, Ebsco, OVID etc.) Frequently referred to as the most important listing

21. 2.390.000 hits

22. But still: Lots of work to do: –150+ suggestions for ”new” journals every month –Assisting publishers in creating and delivering OAI-compliant article level metadata –Increasing workload in maintaning the list: checking for compliance, weeding etc. –Still ideas for improvements

23. New functionality and developments in the pipeline? Service for authors: ”where can I publish in OA and what are the conditions??” Integration of OA-articles from hybrid journals Working with journals to enable them in providing OAI-compliant article level metadata Secure long term funding: –Donations programme is launched

25. OpenDOAR The Directory of Open Access Repositories credits to Bill Hubbard SHERPA Manager University of Nottingham

26. OpenDOAR - vision To improve the quality in, dissemination of and communication around repositories by providing: –A Directory with entries sorted by content, location, constituency, etc –A Registry with registration services, FAQs and listed desriptions based on technical and metadata aspects –A Bridge between repository administrators and service providers –A Resource of materials and links of use to repository administrators –A Focus for discussion and contact between repository administrators

27. OpenDOAR – so far The Directory –Search –Browse –FAQ –Feedback –Suggest a repository Currently 380 repositories

32. A very diverse landscape! Enthusiasm and establishment from many levels –Subject based –Institutionally based –Departmentally based Content types are expanding –multiple-type holdings based on institution Various software solutions But still: many repositories to be considered as projects rather than services!

33. Quality problems & confusion Open Access –but not OAI-PMH, not scholarly material –but not immediate access –but not full-text –but hedged with restrictive rights-limitations Unclear –descriptions of the repository –use licenses –re-use policy –archiving policy –definitions of content types –collection policy –subjects covered –etc etc

34. Three types of use(rs) Service providers –Harvesting metadata for aggregated services (Google, OAIster, BASE etc.) –Service providers need a way of contacting and liaising with repository administrators as a body Meta-users –Analyse and utilise metadata and repository descriptions –Funders want to check whether their research is suitably housed and see how it is used –OA advocates need repository overviews and statistics –All stakeholders need clarity on the overall scale, scope and development of the repository network –Institutional managers need overviews of colleague and competitor situations Researchers –Target individual documents/objects –View repositories through search service

35. Funded by...

36. OpenDOAR development Survey existing repositories Look at each single repository Test against metadata description Check adequate description can be provided Contact repository administrator with information Produce useful classification structure Build full directory and registry service Create update and maintenance procedures

37. SHERPA/RoMEO Continuing project & under development: Publisher Copyright Policies & Self- Archiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

39. Open Access Infrastructure Three components: –Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) –Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) –Publisher Copyright Policies & Self- Archiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list

41. More information www.doaj.org www.opendoar.org http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Donatations to the DOAJ: www.doaj.org/articles/donation lars.bjornshauge@lub.lu.se

42. Thank you for your attention