[BOAI] Directory of Open Access Journals reaches new milestones

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the DOAJ, via the AmSci OA Forum.  --Peter Suber.]

Directory of Open Access Journals reaches new milestones – now *7 years* of
operation, now more than *5 000* journals, now more than *2 000* journals
searchable on article level, very soon more than *400 000* articles
searchable!

   - Aggregating and disseminating scholarly Open Access journals since may
   2003!
   - Developing Open Access Journals by means of promoting open re-use
   policies – the SPARC Europe
SEAL<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=faq#seal>!

   - Working for long term archiving of Open Access
Journals<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=longTermArchiving>in
cooperation with the National
   Library of the Netherlands <http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html> – project
   sponsored by the Swedish Library
Association<http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/>!

   - During the years sponsored by Open Society
Institute<http://www.soros.org/>,
   SPARC <http://www.arl.org/sparc/>, SPARC
Europe<http://www.sparceurope.org/>,
   EBSCO <http://www.ebscohost.com/>, INASP <http://www.inasp.info/>,
Axiell<http://www.axiell.se/home>,
   National Library of Sweden <http://www.kb.se/hjalp/english/> & Swedish
   Library Association <http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/>. We are very
   grateful for the contributions from our sponsors.
   - Supported by the community via the DOAJ membership
program<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership>.
   We are very grateful for the support from individuals, universities,
   research institutions, library consortia and aggregators. The contributions
   have made it possible for us to do the work that we are doing.

However there is much more work to be done – therefore if you, your
university or your library consortium doesn´t have a DOAJ membership, please
consider becoming a member. We need your support to do more than we already
are doing.

Lars Bjornshauge <lars.bjornshauge at lub.lu.se>
Director of Lund University Libraries
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