[BOAI] Fwd: [SOAF] NOW THERE ARE 4000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ!

[Iryna Kuchma]

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From: Peter Suber <peters at earlham.edu>
Date: 1 квіт. 2009 17:30
Subject: [SOAF] NOW THERE ARE 4000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ!
To: SPARC Open Access Forum <SPARC-OAForum at arl.org>

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


 For Immediate Release April 1st, 2009

  Lars Bjornshauge
  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, 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 (
http://www.kb.se), INASP ( http://www.inasp.info), Swedish Library
Association ( http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org), Lund University (
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 http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership for becoming
a DOAJ member!

 Thank you for your interest and support!

  Lars Bjornshauge
  Anna-Lena Johansson & The DOAJ-team