[BOAI] NOW THERE ARE 4000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ!

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the DOAJ.  --Peter Suber.]


For Immediate Release April 1st, 2009

<blocked::blocked::blocked::blocked::mailto:lars.bjornshauge at lub.lu.se>Lars 
Bjornshauge
<blocked::blocked::blocked::blocked::mailto:anna-lena.johansson at lub.lu.se>Anna-Lena 
Johansson


NOW THERE ARE 4000 JOURNALS IN THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS!

Lund, Sweden – As of today the Directory of Open 
Access Journals (DOAJ, 
<blocked::blocked::blocked::blocked::http://www.doaj.org/>http://www.doaj.org) 
contains 4000 open access journals, i.e. quality 
controlled scientific and scholarly electronic 
journals that are freely available on the web.

The usage of DOAJ is constantly increasing. Every 
month we have more than 8 million hits; hundreds 
of libraries all over the world have included the 
DOAJ titles in their catalogues and other 
services and commercial aggregators are as well benefiting of the service.

The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals 
is still to increase the visibility and 
accessibility of open access scholarly journals, 
and thereby promote their increased usage and 
impact. The directory aims to comprehensively 
cover all open access scholarly journals that use 
an appropriate quality control system. Journals 
in about 50 languages can be found and all 
subject areas are welcome. Now there are journals 
from 98 countries in DOAJ. To maintain the 
quality of the service we also have to remove 
titles from DOAJ if they no longer live up to the 
selection criteria. 94 titles have been removed during 2008.

DOAJ is sponsored by the National Library of 
Sweden 
(<blocked::blocked::blocked::blocked::http://www.kb.se/>http://www.kb.se), 
INASP 
(<blocked::blocked::blocked::blocked::http://www.inasp.info/>http://www.inasp.info), 
Swedish Library Association 
(<blocked::blocked::blocked::blocked::http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/>http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org), 
Lund University 
(<blocked::blocked::blocked::blocked::http://www.lub.lu.se/>http://www.lub.lu.se). 


In February 2007 a membership program was 
launched in order to create a sustainable 
financial foundation for the continuing operation 
and development of DOAJ. For more information:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership

Today DOAJ has got 13 individuals, 80 libraries, 
universities and research centers, 10 library 
consortia and 2 aggregators as members. Thanks to 
all our members for the most needed support!

We are constantly working on evaluating more 
journals to be included in the service, therefore 
we still need support from the community!

Please turn to 
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for becoming a DOAJ member!

Thank you for your interest and support!

Lars Bjornshauge
Anna-Lena Johansson & The DOAJ-team
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