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How to disseminate Open Access Journals through OAI, the DOAJ project

How to disseminate Open Access Journals through OAI, the DOAJ project. CERN February 2004. Initiated during the NCSC conference in Lund October 2002 Supported by OSI, Open Society Institute and SPARC Project started January 2003 Service launched 12th of May 2003. The goals of DOAJ:

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How to disseminate Open Access Journals through OAI, the DOAJ project

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  1. How to disseminate Open Access Journals through OAI, the DOAJ project CERN February 2004

  2. Initiated during the NCSC conference in Lund October 2002 • Supported by OSI, Open Society Institute and SPARC • Project started January 2003 • Service launched 12th of May 2003 Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  3. The goals of DOAJ: • increase the visibility of Open Access scientific and scholarly journals • ease the use of the journals • promote and increase their usage and impact • make it possible to collect and organize the resources so that libraries worldwide can integrate them into existing services Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  4. What have we done to reach the goals? • What needs to be done and who should do it? • Numbers… Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  5. What have we done to reach the goals? Not much! Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  6. What needs to be done? Reliability - selection criteria Content - increase number of journal titles Content - article level Impact factor Communication Open access Quality control measures Scientific or scholaly content Phase 2 – supported by OSI, SPARC and BIBSAM Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  7. And who should do it? - us? - journal owners? - libraries? - others? Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  8. 899644: http://www.doaj.org/ 6298: http://www.google.com/ 2845: http://search.yahoo.com/ 1837: http://library.massey.ac.nz/ 1778: http://www.unipa.it/ 1456: http://www.ugr.es/ 1213: http://www.plos.org/ 1211: http://www.up.ac.za/ 1185: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/ 1112: http://library.concordia.ca/ 1111: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/ 1094: http://library.csun.edu/ 980: http://www.library.louisville.edu/ 957: http://www.itt-techlibrary.com/ 925: http://www.ucalgary.ca/ 879: http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/ 857: http://wwwlibrary.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/ 848: http://www.lub.lu.se/ 798: http://www.ycp.edu/ 795: http://library.hartford.edu/ 758: http://www.tue.nl/ 755: http://jpl.coj.net/ 745: http://www.eifl.net/ 702: http://www.biblio.math.jussieu.fr/ 675: http://www.biomedcentral.com/ 672: http://www.uvsc.edu/ 664: http://www.bib.mh.se/ 644: http://www.biblio.iss.it/ 619: http://echo.louisville.edu:2056/ 586: http://nnlm.gov/ The top 30 referring sites Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  9. Where are they? Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  10. Monthly activity month: requests: pages: May 2003: 395410 249407 Jun 2003: 315285 199469 Jul 2003: 203393 129685 Aug 2003: 176698 115123 Sep 2003: 308164 199997 Oct 2003: 464941 313822 Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

  11. How many hits did I get when I searched for DOAJ: Google: 11.600 Yahoo: 7.900 Lycos: 7.086 AltaVista: 2.138 AlltheWeb: 2.084 Unreliable? A bit - DOAJ can also mean Death of a Jedi! Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries

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