[BOAI] Fwd: New management for the DOAJ

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Alma Swan.  --Peter Suber.]


 PRESS RELEASE

New agreement concluded regarding management of the Directory of Open
Access Journals (DOAJ)

17 December 2012: Lund University Libraries and Infrastructure Services for
Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA - a UK-registered Community Interest Company)
jointly announce important changes regarding the future operations and
development of the DOAJ.

The DOAJ was initiated at Lund University, Library Head Office in May 2003.
Initially the service was based on project grants but over the years the
major share of support was generated from income from the membership
programme. Having launched with a list of 300 journals, the DOAJ is now the
leading source of Open Access journals, and this month lists more than 8
300 journals in all subject areas, published in more than 100 countries in
over 50 languages.

In response to the growth that the service has experienced in combination
with increased demands for further developments,  Lund University concluded
during 2012 that a new community-based solution for operating and
developing the DOAJ had become timely. Following a series of discussions,
the University concluded an agreement with Infrastructure Services for Open
Access, C.I.C. (IS4OA) according to which the newly formed organisation
will manage the trademark as well as assume operations and development of
the Directory of Open Access Journals. Further plans will be announced
shortly. IS4OA was founded by Dr. Alma Swan (convener of EOS, co-founder
and co-owner of Key Perspectives Ltd. and Director SPARC Europe ) and Dr.
Caroline Sutton (co-founder Co-Action Publishing  and President of OASPA ).

Both parties are confident that this transition will ensure that the
scholarly community of the future will continue to benefit from a resource
that has proven very important for the ongoing changes in the scholarly
communication system.

Jette Guldborg Petersen
Director of Libraries
Lund University

Caroline Sutton
Director
IS4OA

For further information contact:

Caroline Sutton, Director IS4OA
e-mail: caroline.sutton at co-action-net
tel: +4790690506

Follow developments on www.doaj.org and www.is4oa.org
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