<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from the DOAJ, via the AmSci OA Forum. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="SV" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Directory
of Open Access Journals reaches new milestones – now <b>7 years</b> of
operation, now more than <b>5 000</b> journals, now more than <b>2 000</b>
journals searchable on article level, very soon more than <b>400 000</b>
articles searchable! </span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Aggregating and disseminating scholarly
Open Access journals since may 2003! </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Developing Open Access Journals
by means of promoting open re-use policies – the <a href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=faq#seal" target="_blank">SPARC
Europe SEAL</a>! </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Working for </span><a href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=longTermArchiving" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">long term archiving of Open Access Journals</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> in cooperation with the </span><a href="http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">National Library of
the Netherlands</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> – project sponsored by
the </span><a href="http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Swedish Library Association</span></a><span lang="EN-US">! </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">During the years sponsored by </span><a href="http://www.soros.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Open Society Institute</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">SPARC</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.sparceurope.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">SPARC Europe</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.ebscohost.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">EBSCO</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.inasp.info/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">INASP</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.axiell.se/home" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Axiell</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.kb.se/hjalp/english/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">National Library of Sweden</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> & </span><a href="http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Swedish
Library Association</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. We are very grateful for
the contributions from our sponsors. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Supported by the community via
the </span><a href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=membership" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">DOAJ membership program</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. 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. </span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:lars.bjornshauge@lub.lu.se" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Lars Bjornshauge</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> <br>
Director of Lund University Libraries</span></p>
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