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Membership program for DOAJ launched |
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14th February 2007 |
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Since the launch of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in May 2003 the service has grown significantly. As of February 2007 2550 journals are listed in the DOAJ, article-level search service is available for 30% of the journals (125.000 articles), and increased usage can be seen.
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Author service |
| An author service recently has been added that allows researches to "look up" where they can publish OA. They are also working on inclusion of Open Access articles from Hybrid Journals, linking into ISI databases, into Google Scholar etc.
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Funding for the DOAJ has been provided by the Open Society Institute, The Royal Library of Sweden, SPARC, SPARC Europe and Axiell.
In order to create a sustainable financial foundation for the continuing development and operation of DOAJ a membership program has been launched allowing individuals, universities, research centers, libraries, library organisation, library consortia, aggregators and other organisations to contribute.
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Statement from Peter Suber in support of the membership program |
| "The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is used by faculty around the world to find peer-reviewed journals where they can submit their work, as well as to find journals where they will have open access to the peer-reviewed research of colleagues. In these ways, the DOAJ enhances the value of open-access literature and helps connect authors and readers. 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."
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