<div>Apoligies for Cross Posting</div><div> </div><div>March 12th 2013<br></div><div>DOAJ reaches new milestones:<br></div><div>We have just completed the transition to a new environment and launched <br>a new platform with integrated functionality for sharing, exporting and <br>
enhanced search/browse functionality: at the article level, search <br>results can be filtered by language and publication year and by license <br>and publication fee; at the journal level, you can filter by subject, by <br>
country, by license and by publication fees. These facets will be <br>developed further in the months to come. (Read more about our <br>enhancements on our home page: <a href="http://www.doaj.org">www.doaj.org</a> <<a href="http://www.doaj.org">http://www.doaj.org</a>>.)<br>
</div><div>We are also very proud to announce that the DOAJ has reached two <br>important milestones:</div><div> 1. For the first time since launch in 2003, more than 50% of the<br> journals are providing metadata at article level.We will continue to<br>
work with the 2000+ publishers to increase this figure.<br> 2. More than 1 million articles are now searchable in DOAJ which means<br> more than 1 million article-level metadata entriesare available for<br> harvesting!We expect this figure to increase significantly in the<br>
months to come.</div><div> </div><div>We continue to work with key stakeholders to agree on and implement new, <br>tighter criteria for the inclusion of journals in the DOAJ: critieria <br>that will address issues of quality and openness, as well as other kinds <br>
of information about the journals.<br></div><div>We are very excited about these developments and we are grateful for the <br>continued support from the community. We always need more support so we <br>can continue to provide a better service, so please consider <br>
contributing: <br><a href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTemplate&template=supportDoaj&uiLanguage=en">http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTemplate&template=supportDoaj&uiLanguage=en</a><br></div><div>For more information, please contact Lars Bjørnshauge <br>
<<a href="mailto:lars@doaj.org>or">mailto:lars@doaj.org>or</a> Dom Mitchell <<a href="mailto:dom@doaj.org">mailto:dom@doaj.org</a>><br></div><div>The Directory of Open Access Journals is provided by IS4OA <br>
<<a href="http://www.is4oa.org>in">http://www.is4oa.org>in</a> cooperation with SemperTool <br><<a href="http://www.sempertool.dk">http://www.sempertool.dk</a>>.</div><div><br>Lars Bjørnshauge<br></div><div>
SPARC’s Director of European Library Relations – <a href="http://www.sparceurope.com">www.sparceurope.com</a><br></div><div>Managing Director DOAJ – <a href="http://www.doaj.org">www.doaj.org</a></div><div> </div><div>Twitter: DOAJplus<br>
</div><div>mobile phone: +45 53 51 06 03<br></div><div>Skype-Id: lbj-lub0603 - </div><div> </div><div>Twitter: elbjoern0603<br></div><div>e.mail: <a href="mailto:lars@doaj.org">lars@doaj.org</a> or <a href="mailto:lars@arl.org">lars@arl.org</a><br>
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