1 L U N D U N I V E R S I T Y Why support the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)? ICOLC Conference Stockholm, October 2007 Lars Björnshauge, Director

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Why support the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)?

ICOLC Conference Stockholm, October 2007

Lars Björnshauge,Director of Libraries

Lund University

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What is DOAJ:– A collection of peer reviewed open

access journals– Scope: All disciplines – all languages– Provides metadata harvesting

services based on the OAI-PMH protocol for libraries and other service providers

– Provides search service for end-users

– Services for authors & publishers

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Selection criteria

• Open Access – no embargo!

• Quality control measures, – the journal must exercise peer-review or editorial

quality control in order to be included in the DOAJ.

• Scientific or scholarly content– Researcher as primary target group

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Purpose of the DOAJ:

• making it easier for – aggregators & libraries to integrate OA-

journals data in their services – OA-publishers to get their journals visible – readers to find OA-material– authors to find a journal to publish in OA

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Number of journals listed in the DOAJ

• May 2003: 300• November 2003: 558• May 2004: 1097• November 2004: 1345• May 2005: 1601• November 2005: 1905• May 2006: 2230• November 2006: 2450• May 2007: 2700• October 2007 2850

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The Editorial Process (simplified)

Suggestions Lists, blogs etc

Editorial work: check against criteria, communication withjournal owner etc.,check for compliance, remove uncompliant journals etc

DOAJ

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Using DOAJ for harvesting Metadata

DOAJ

OAI-PMH orother protocols

Serviceprovider:Commercial aggregator,OpenURL-providerLibrary (OPAC and/or ERM)

Harvesting/fetchingmetadata

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Using DOAJ for searching/browsing

DOAJ

User

search

Journal web sites

Redirect

Full text Full text

+ 500.000 redirects per month

Journal Journal Journal Journal

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Impact so far• Global visibility and dissemination of records

– Integrated in OPAC´s in many, many libraries– Several service providers are harvesting from

DOAJ– Integrated in the services of aggregators

(Serial Solutions, Swets, Ebsco, OVID etc.)– and OpenURL-providers (Exlibris etc.)

• Frequently referred to as the most important listing

• Among the top 3 of referring sites for OA-journals

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Composition of the DOAJ Journals

June 2007:

10 Publishers with 10+ Journals24 Publishers with 5+ Journals1906 Publishers with 1 Journal!2044 Publishers in total as of June 2007!

Journals from in 82 countries+40 Languages

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Providing tools for journals to enable them to provide OAI-compliant article level metadata

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L U N D U N I V E R S I T YCooperation with INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications)

Country of Publication

No. of Journals in DOAJ

Country of Publication

No. of Journals in

DOAJCountry of Publication

No. of Journals in DOAJ

Bangladesh 2 Georgia 4 Nepal 3

Belarus 1 Ghana 1 Nigeria 8

Bhutan 1 Guatemala 2 Pakistan 23

Bosnia 1 India 89 Peru 12

Brazil 238 Indonesia 1 Philippines 2

Bulgaria 6 Iran 18 Senegal 1

China 6 Kenya 1Serbia and Montenegro 8

Colombia 34 Korea 13 Thailand 1

Cuba 21 Macedonia 1 Ukraine 9

Ecuador 1 Morocco 1

Egypt 6 Mozambique 1

Working with journals from developing countries

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L U N D U N I V E R S I T YCooperation with SPARC Europé:Certification programme for Open Access Journals

• Seal of Approval for Open Access Journals:– Explicit re-use policies (CC-licences)– Ability to provide XML-metadata on article

level– Provision of usage statistics – Preservation policy– Allow storage of full-text– Allow data- and/or text-miningTo be launched this month!

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Long Term Archiving

Initial discussions with the Royal Library of the Netherlands (KB) concerning

provision of full-text of DOAJ-journals for long term archiving

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DOAJ Membership Benefits

• Acknowledgement as a DOAJ Member on the DOAJ Membership Pages, including link to member institution homepage.

• Quarterly newsletters • Access to the list of recently added titles • Access to list of removed titles • Subscription to e-mail list for DOAJ members • The right to use the DOAJ membership in

marketing activities• Discount on participation in next years LUND

Conference, April 21st- 23nd, 2008 – www.lub.lu.se/ncsc

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Membership Categories and yearly membership Fees

• Individuals: Euro 100• Libraries, Universities, Research Centers: Euro 400• Library Consortia, Library Associations: Euro 4.000• Aggregators and other Service Providers: Euro

5.000• Supporter: Euro (whatever)• Members as of October 2007:• 40+ Universities/Research Centers, • 6 Consortia • 1 Aggregator • 17 different countries

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Libraries & the Open Access Movement

• The two drivers for the Open Access Movement– The Serials Crisis , accelerating price

increases – librarians raised the issue, university decision makers listened

– Technology – early adaptors (techies & researchers, OAI etc.)

• Libraries heavily involved in the early stages (BOAI, Berlin Declaration etc.)

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Funding of Open Access Services

• The Green Road (self-archiving/IR):– Initated & driven by libraries– Funded by universities/research centers– Infrastructure

• driven by libraries, funded by project grants (Sherpa/Romeo – OpenDOAR) – sustainability??

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Funding of Open Access Services

• The Golden Road (Open Access Journals):– Business model:

• Publication charges (BMC, PLoS etc.)• In kind support (the usual model)• One off donations (PLoS)• Membership programmes (BMC, PLoS)

– Infrastructure• DOAJ – funding?? sustainability??

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The funding history of DOAJ

• 2003-2005:– Project grants from Open Society Institute, The National

Library of Sweden, SPARC, SPARC Europé– in kind support form Lund University (Library Head Office)

• 2005-2006: – A few sponsorships– in kind support form Lund University (Library Head Office)

• 2007– Several sponsorships– in kind support form Lund University (Library Head Office)– Membership Program launched February 2007

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Aggregator services

• Libraries are paying for services from– Publishers

– Subscription agents *– Federated search service providers *– OpenURL-solution providers *

• DOAJ has functionality in common with publisher services, services from subscription agents

• * = are harvesting data from or use data from DOAJ

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What library consortia & libraries can do:

• LIbrary Consortia:– provide funding for membership programmes, – liaise with funding agencies re. publications

charges– support infrastructure services

• Libraries: – Integrate open access documents in their

services (OPACs, portals, etc.) thus giving exposure, generating usage & impact

DOAJ facilitates just that! Directly & indirectly via aggregators

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Consider this

• During the recent years numbers of university presidents, rectors associations, research funding agencies and even governments has declared its support to declarations such as the Berlin Declaration, issued recommendations to support development of institutional repositories and encouraged researchers to publish in Open Access journals.

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Consider even this

• The commercial publishers are lobbying intensively against Open Access via their organisations such as the STM publishers

• This is the case of the NIH mandate in the United States.

• In EU officials are bombarded by phone calls from publishers every single day.

• The recent PRISM initiative is another example.

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and this

• The Open Access Movement was triggered by a number of things, among those the serials crisis.

• Library Consortia have done a lot to keep price increases down, but never the less prices increase more than the average inflation rates.

• Who are paying for the lobbying done by commercial publishers?

• We are, you are, the libraries and our consortia!

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A quick calculation

• A medium sized academic library pays a yearly license fee to the worlds largest publisher of approximately Euro 500.000

• Consider paying Euro 400 – this is less than 1/10 of one percent of what you pay to that publisher.

• Note that this library pays approximately Euro 125.000 to the shareholders of that company

• Consider paying less than 1/3 of one percent of what you pay to the shareholders of that publisher – and thus contribute to the continuation of a highly valued service for the Open Access Movement

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Statements in support of the DOAJ Membership Programme

• Peter Suber: ”Every institution that supports open access or researchers who support open access should support the DOAJ. I hope you will consider joining its membership program”.

• LIBER President Hans Geleijnse:”The Directory of Open Access Journals is an important

service for researchers and their libraries.” As President of LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, I would like to recommend libraries to support this work”.

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Summary of forthcoming review in a well-known library journal (October 2007)

• DOAJ– is a significant resource. – has developed a well-deserved reputation for quality, – is the world’s most authoritative list of fully open access,

peer-reviewed titles. – the title list is very impressive– is growing dramatically. – the service provided by is so obviously important– the membership fees are such an incredible bargain,

that it seems highly likely that ongoing economic security will be a reality for DOAJ in the not too distant future.

– libraries, consortia, universities and research centres should consider membership;

– vendors serving the library community are well advised to consider DOAJ membership or sponsorship.

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Thank you for your attention!…… and for your support!

All credits to the DOAJ team:Anna-Lena Johansson, Sonja Brage,

Ingela Wahlgren & Salam Baker Shanawa

www.doaj.org

[email protected]

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Summary of forthcoming review in a well-known library journal (October 2007)

• DOAJ– is a significant resource. – has developed a well-deserved reputation for quality, – is the world’s most authoritative list of fully open access,

peer-reviewed titles. – the title list is very impressive– is growing dramatically. – the service provided by is so obviously important– the membership fees are such an incredible bargain,

that it seems highly likely that ongoing economic security will be a reality for DOAJ in the not too distant future.

– libraries, consortia, universities and research centres should consider membership;

– vendors serving the library community are well advised to consider DOAJ membership or sponsorship.

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1 L U N D U N I V E R S I T Y Why support the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)? ICOLC Conference Stockholm, October 2007 Lars Björnshauge, Director