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

2. Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries
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
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3. Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries
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
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What have we done to reach the goals?
What needs to be done and who should do it?
Numbers…
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5. Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries
What have we done to reach the goals?
Not much!
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6. Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries
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
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And who should do it?
- us?
- journal owners?
- libraries?
- others?
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Where are they?
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Monthly activity
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How many hits did I get when I searched for DOAJ:
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Unreliable?
A bit - DOAJ can also mean Death of a Jedi!
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