Directory of Open Access Journals
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| URL | www.doaj.org |
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| Commercial? | No |
| Available language(s) | English, French, and Turkish |
| Alexa rank | 96,053 (as of October 2011)[1] |
| Current status | Online |
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is website maintained by Lund University which lists open access journals. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer review or editorial quality control and "use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access."[2] The Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition of open access is used to define required rights given to users, for the journal to be included in the DOAJ, as the rights to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles".[3][2]
As of October 2011, the database contained 7116 journals, with an average of four journals being added each day for the month of September.[4] The aim of DOAJ is to "increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact."[2]
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[edit] History
The Open Society Institute funded various open-access related projects after the BOAI; the Directory was one of those projects.[5] After the Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication Lund University's became the organization to set up and maintain the DOAJ.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "Ranking for Doaj.org". Alexa.com. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/doaj.org. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ a b c "About". Directory of Open Access Journals.
- ^ The BOAI definition is at "Budapest Open Access Initiative: Frequently Asked Questions".
- ^ "DOAJ Statistics". Directory of Open Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=newTitles&uiLanguage=en&fromDate=1970-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&orderedBy=J.first_added. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ Crawford, Walt. Open access : what you need to know now. Chicago: American Library Association. pp. 13. ISBN 9780838911068.
- ^ Hedlund, T.; Rabow, I. (2009). "Scholarly publishing and open access in the Nordic countries". Learned Publishing 22 (3): 177. doi:10.1087/2009303.
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