DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

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DOAJDirectory of Open Access Journals

• Berlin March 2006

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• Agenda
• DOAJ intro
• Selection criteria
• Selection process
• Observations and trends
• eJournal start-up recommendations
• http//www.doaj.org

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• DOAJ intro
• Project started january 2003
• Service launched May 2003 with 300 journals
• Status March 2006 2100 journals

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• DOAJ intro
• A collection of peer reviewed open access
  journals
• All disciplines
• All languages
• One interface

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Aim

• Increase visibility and access
• Increased usage
• Increased citation
• Increased impact
• Increased usage...

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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Selection policy

• Subjects all
• Languages all
• Resource types periodicals
• Target group researchers
• Cost none for the user

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• 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

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• 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

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• eJournal start-up recommendations
• Have a business plan
• Guide to Open Access Publishing and Scholarly
  Societies http//www.soros.org/openaccess/scholarl
  y_guide.shtml
• 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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• Journal owner advice service
• Author service
• How to

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More information

• http//www.doaj.org/
• Suggest a journalhttp//www.doaj.org/suggest/