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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
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
DOAJ: making it easier for
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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 OAjournals data in their services
What we hope to see …
Increase visibility and access
= Increased usage
= Increased citation
= Increased impact
= Increased usage...
etc etc
• 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
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
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
• 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
Number of journals
listed in the DOAJ
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May 2003:
November 2003:
May 2004:
November 2004:
May 2005:
November 2005:
May 2006:
300
558
1097
1345
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2230
Language
Number of journals receiving
articles in that language
(September 2005)
English
1535
Spanish
314
Portuguese
172
French
101
German
73
Japanese
30
Italian
28
Russian
19
Turkish
13
Catalan
6
Croatian
4
Czech
4
Chinese
4
Usage of the DOAJ service
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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
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
2.390.000 hits
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
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
OpenDOAR
The Directory of
Open Access Repositories
credits to Bill Hubbard
SHERPA Manager
University of Nottingham
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
OpenDOAR – so far
• The Directory
– Search
– Browse
– FAQ
– Feedback
– Suggest a repository
• Currently 380 repositories
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!
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
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descriptions of the repository
use licenses
re-use policy
archiving policy
definitions of content types
collection policy
subjects covered
etc etc
Three types of use(rs)
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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
Funded by . . .
OpenDOAR development
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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
SHERPA/RoMEO
• Continuing project & under development:
• Publisher Copyright Policies & SelfArchiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list
• www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Open Access Infrastructure
• Three components:
– Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ)
– Directory of Open Access Repositories
(OpenDOAR)
– Publisher Copyright Policies & SelfArchiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list
More information
• www.doaj.org
• www.opendoar.org
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
• Donatations to the DOAJ:
• www.doaj.org/articles/donation
• [email protected]
Thank you for your
attention