When it comes to the DOAJ we will in a couple of months launch the DOAJII with metadata on article level, by then we will be able to provide figures as to the number of articles in the DOAJ journals (that by then are able to provide such metadata).
I hope this will accommodate the need for more useful figures as to the amount of OA articles in Open Access Journals - according to the criteria used in the DOAJ service.
Kindest regards
Lars Björnshauge
-----Original Message-----
From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:56 PM
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Re: DOAJ, OAIster and Romeo should chart growth, as EPrints
does
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Andy Powell wrote:
> The ePrints UK project is now maintaining a snapshot of the state of the
> eprint archives and open access journals within UK academia (at least, all
> those that we know about and harvest from).
> http://eprints-uk.rdn.ac.uk/stats/
>
> The intention is to provide ongoing monthly snapshots of the number of
> known archives and a count of the number of records harvested from each.
This will be very useful. But it currently covers only 18 UK OA eprint
archives! Thanks to Tim Brody's wonderful new directory we know there
are already at least 130 eprints archives worldwide:
http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all
(There is a button so any archive the index has missed can add itself.)
archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=add
And OAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ currently indexes
a total of 247 OA archives of all kinds.
The ePrints UK snapshots could be made still more useful and informative
if they were augmented to cover the full worldwide context of OA
archives.
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004)
is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum:
To join the Forum:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
Post discussion to:
american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
Hypermail Archive:
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Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy:
BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
journal whenever one exists.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals
BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
Received on Mon Feb 02 2004 - 13:03:09 GMT