Lund University LibrariesHead Office

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) & Directory of

Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)

Trends in Education and research: Developing Skills and Communication

across Europé

UNICA Seminar

18-19 May, 2006

Helsinki

Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries

The purpose of the DOAJ

• Making it easier for Open Access Scholarly content to be found, read, used and cited

• Be a part of the emerging infrastructure of the Open Access Movement

DOAJ: making it easier for

• readers to find OA-material• authors to find a journal to publish in OA• OA-publishers to get their journals visible• Aggregators & Libraries to integrate OA-

journals data in their services

What we hope to see …

Increase visibility and access

= Increased usage

= Increased citation

= Increased impact

= Increased usage...

etc etc

• http://www.doaj.org/

– A collection of peer reviewed open access journals

– SCOPE: All disciplines – all languages– One interface– Provides search service for end-users– Provides metadata harvesting services

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

Selection criteria

• Open Access• 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

Open Access – our definition Oopen access journals = journals that use a

funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.

The BOAI definition of "open access" = the right of "users to read, download, copy,

distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as a mandatory criteria

• History:– Initiated during the first Nordic Conference

on Scholarly Communication in Lund/Copenhagen October 2002

– Initially funded by Open Society Institute and co-funded by SPARC

– Project started January 2003– Service launched 12th of May 2003 with

300+ journals

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

Language Number of journals receiving articles in that language

(September 2005)

English 1535

Spanish 314

Portuguese 172

French 101

German 73

Japanese 30

Italian 28

Russian 19

Turkish 13

Catalan 6

Croatian 4

Czech 4

Chinese 4

Usage of the DOAJ service

• Every month visits from 150+ countries• Requested files increasing• Distinct host served increasing• Amount of data transferred increasing• Visits from OAI-harvesters increasing• Number of abstracts presented increasing• Number of links to articles followed increasing

So far …

• Global visibility and dissemination of records– Integrated in OPAC´s in many, many libraries– Several service providers are linking into DOAJ– Integrated in the services of aggregators (Ullrichs,

Ebsco, OVID etc.)

• Frequently referred to as the most important listing

2.390.000 hits

But still:• Lots of work to do:

– 150+ suggestions for ”new” journals every month

– Assisting publishers in creating and delivering OAI-compliant article level metadata

– Increasing workload in maintaning the list: checking for compliance, weeding etc.

– Still ideas for improvements

New functionality and developments in the pipeline?

• Service for authors: ”where can I publish in OA and what are the conditions??”

• Integration of OA-articles from hybrid journals• Working with journals to enable them in

providing OAI-compliant article level metadata• Secure long term funding:

– Donations programme is launched

OpenDOARThe Directory of

Open Access Repositories

credits to Bill Hubbard

SHERPA Manager

University of Nottingham

OpenDOAR - vision• To improve the quality in, dissemination of and

communication around repositories by providing:– A Directory with entries sorted by content, location,

constituency, etc

– A Registry with registration services, FAQs and listed desriptions based on technical and metadata aspects

– A Bridge between repository administrators and service providers

– A Resource of materials and links of use to repository administrators

– A Focus for discussion and contact between repository administrators

OpenDOAR – so far

• The Directory– Search– Browse– FAQ– Feedback– Suggest a repository

• Currently 380 repositories

A very diverse landscape!

• Enthusiasm and establishment from many levels– Subject based– Institutionally based– Departmentally based

• Content types are expanding– multiple-type holdings based on institution

• Various software solutions• But still: many repositories to be considered as

projects rather than services!

Quality problems & confusion

• Open Access– but not OAI-PMH, not scholarly material– but not immediate access– but not full-text– but hedged with restrictive rights-limitations

• Unclear– descriptions of the repository– use licenses– re-use policy– archiving policy– definitions of content types– collection policy– subjects covered– etc etc

Three types of use(rs)• Service providers

– Harvesting metadata for aggregated services (Google, OAIster, BASE etc.)

– Service providers need a way of contacting and liaising with repository administrators as a body

• Meta-users– Analyse and utilise metadata and repository descriptions– Funders want to check whether their research is suitably housed and

see how it is used– OA advocates need repository overviews and statistics – All stakeholders need clarity on the overall scale, scope and

development of the repository network– Institutional managers need overviews of colleague and competitor

situations• Researchers

– Target individual documents/objects– View repositories through search service

Funded by . . .

OpenDOAR development

• Survey existing repositories• Look at each single repository• Test against metadata description• Check adequate description can be provided• Contact repository administrator with information• Produce useful classification structure• Build full directory and registry service • Create update and maintenance procedures

SHERPA/RoMEO

• Continuing project & under development:

• Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list

• www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Open Access Infrastructure

• Three components:– Directory of Open Access Journals

(DOAJ)

– Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)

– Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list

More information

• www.doaj.org• www.opendoar.org• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

• Donatations to the DOAJ:• www.doaj.org/articles/donation

• lars.bjornshauge@lub.lu.se

Thank you for your attention