1. An Introduction to the DOAJ Dom Mitchell Community Manager dom@doaj.org EIFL Webinar 11 March 2015

2. 2 Overview What is the DOAJ? What is our aim? Search / Browse: by journal, by article, by subject Our metadata The new application form Volunteer for us

3. 3 What is DOAJ? A database listing high quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals A whitelist, not a blacklist Journals from ALL disciplines & all languages A hub for the collection & distribution of metadata to 3rd parties Developed & hosted on standards-based, open-source software by Cottage Labs () FREELY available to anyone, in any country, all over the world*

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6. 6 What is our aim? To be the starting point for all searches for open access journals or articles To be relevant internationally, curating partnerships worldwide To increase visibility and awareness of quality open access journals  Online (social media, online learning environments, collaboration spaces etc.)  Offline (in the labs, in the libraries etc.)

7. 7 What is our aim? To involve the community more by increasing our transparency and sharing information: DOAJ News Service Public consultations Social media

9. 9 Advanced Search

10. 10 Advanced Search - journals

11. 11 Search results - journals

12. 12 Search results - journals

13. 13 Advanced Search – articles

14. 14 Search results - articles

15. 15 Subject browsing

16. 16 Subject browsing

17. 17 Subject browsing NEW improved subject browser coming in May 2015!

18. 18 Our metadata Publisher provided (we are not responsible for errors) Freely available to use, reuse, copy, distribute etc. in accordance with our CC BY-SA license. Available via the following methods:  CSV  Spidering/crawling  OAI-PMH All major aggregators and library databases, journal databases etc.  Coming soon: available via OpenURL, in Google Scholar

19. 19 DOAJ's new application form New form focusses on 3 different themes:  Quality  Openness  The delivery or technical quality Publishers have to provide much more information to be indexed Applications are reviewed and assessed in a three- tier process

20. 20 DOAJ's new application form

21. 21 Old form: 6 questions | New form: 56 questions Each question asks for a piece of information or data that can act as an indicator of a journal's true intention. This calls for volunteers: librarian power! Crowdsourcing model that gets the community directly involved with DOAJ We are always looking for volunteers in the following languages:  Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish Find out more and apply: A longer form means more work!

22. 22 Thanks to all the Consortia, Universities, Libraries and Publishers, and to our Sponsors for their support http://doaj.org/supportDoaj http://doaj.org/supportDoaj

23. 23 and Thank you! dom@doaj.org