[Forwarding from Lund University. --Peter.]
Lund University Libraries
Head Office
Director of Libraries Lars Björnshauge
Lund, June 3rd 2004
For immediate release
LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES LAUNCHES PHASE 2 Of THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS
JOURNALS - NOW WITH ARTICLE LEVEL SEARCH
Lund, Sweden - Lund University Libraries today launches the phase 2 of the
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ,
http://www.doaj.org). The new
version of DOAJ now includes records at article level and a search
functionality allowing users to search articles in potentially all Open
Access Journals.
The directory now contains information about more than 1100 open access
journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic
journals that are freely available on the web. As of today 270 of the 1100
journals are searchable on article level and both numbers are growing.
Researchers can now search almost 46.000 articles through the Directory of
Open Access Journals and be sure to get access to the articles.
"As a dynamic inventory of open-access journals, DOAJ has already succeeded
in demonstrating the broad and growing adoption of open access and has
enabled libraries to systematically present open-access journals to their
users," said Rick Johnson, director of SPARC. "Now, by adding article-level
records, DOAJ is taking an important next step that will further expand use
of articles published in open-access journals. SPARC is proud to support
this ground-breaking work."
"The DOAJ provides a platform for open access journals to gain greater
visibility and thereby increase their readership" said Melissa Hagemann,
Program Manager, Open Society Institute. Libraries throughout the world
have thus far been able to add 1,100 peer-reviewed titles to their
collections, and no where is this more important than to libraries in the
developing world, where access to journals is limited due to the high cost
of most titles. With today's launch of phase 2 of the Directory,
researchers will now be able to search, and have direct access to, the
thousands of articles included within the DOAJ. OSI is pleased to partner
w/Lund University Libraries and SPARC on this innovative project."
"With this new article level search functionality we have created an
incentive for owners of Open Access journals to submit article level data
to the DOAJ in order to further increase the visibility, reputation and
impact of their journals", said Lotte Jorgensen, Project Coordinator for
the DOAJ.
The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the
visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, thereby
promoting their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to
comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an
appropriate quality control system.
The DOAJ is funded by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute
(
http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/) and Lund University Libraries, and
supported by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition, (
http://www.arl.org/sparc) and BIBSAM (the Royal Library of Sweden).
Information about how to obtain DOAJ records for use in a library catalogue
or other service you will find at:
http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions#metadata.
The database records are freely available for reuse in other services and
can be harvested by using the OAI-PMH (
http://www.openarchives.org/), thus
further increasing the visibility of the journals. The article level
records will be available for harvesting within 2 months.
Further information: contact Project Coordinator Lotte Jorgensen -
lotte.jorgensen_at_lub.lu.se or Director of Libraries Lars Björnshauge -
lars.bjornshauge_at_lub.lu.se.
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 11:58:55 BST