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Exploring DOAJ: A Gateway to Open Access Journals

Discover the DOAJ, a database of high-quality open access journals from various disciplines and languages. Learn about our mission to increase visibility and involvement within the community. Get insights into our metadata, new application form, and volunteer opportunities. Join us to support quality scholarly communication worldwide!

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Exploring DOAJ: A Gateway to Open Access Journals

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

  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. 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*

  4. 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.)

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

  6. Advanced Search

  7. Advanced Search - journals

  8. Search results - journals

  9. Search results - journals

  10. Advanced Search – articles

  11. Search results - articles

  12. Subject browsing

  13. Subject browsing

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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. DOAJ's new application form

  18. A longer form means more work! • 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:

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

  20. and Thank you!dom@doaj.org

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