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An Introduction to the DOAJ. Dom Mitchell Community Manager dom@doaj.org EIFL Webinar 11 March 2015. 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. What is DOAJ?.
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An Introduction to the DOAJ Dom Mitchell Community Manager dom@doaj.org EIFL Webinar 11 March 2015
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
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*
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.)
What is our aim? • To involve the community more by increasing our transparency and sharing information: • DOAJ News Service • Public consultations • Social media
Subject browsing NEW improved subject browser coming in May 2015!
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
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
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:
Thanks to all the Consortia, Universities, Libraries and Publishers, and to our Sponsors for their supporthttp://doaj.org/supportDoaj