A Conversation about the Directory of Open Access Journals
Tom Hill, Publisher and CEO of Libertas Academica, recently posted an interview with a few of the people who compile and maintain the Directory of Open Access Journals (an essential reference tool). The directory hosted/maintained/and partially funded by the Lund University Library in Sweden.
My how the DOAJ has grown.
There are now 4611 journals in the directory. Currently 1792 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 344222 articles are included in the DOAJ service. (1/23/2009).
It's a Q&A style interview. Here's one exchange of many.
Tom: Thank you all for being willing to be interviewed again. I appreciate this particularly because I know how busy you've all been since our last interview. Perhaps you could start by giving us a broad overview of what's happened since August 2008?
DOAJ: 2009 was a very eventful year:
* Launch of the long-term preservation project
* DOAJ receives the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications 2009
* Implementation of an RSS Feed function
* Continued cooperation with China (ISTIC)
* Arranged 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers together with OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association)
* New function to see how many journals have a Creative Commons license and how many have the SPARC Seal for open access journals.
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