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>> From: "Kjellberg Sara" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:59:27 AM US/Eastern
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: [BOAI] DOAJ News, November 2003
>> Reply-To: BOAI Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/),
>> has now been available for half a year! We would like to take the
>> opportunity to tell you about new functions and features since the
>> launch, and our further plans.
>>
>> At first we would like to remind everyone that it is simple to reuse
>> the descriptions of journals from DOAJ in other systems or search
>> services. All the metadata is available for free and you can get the
>> records in two ways:
>>
>> 1. It is possible to download the list of records in DOAJ in a comma
>> separated format. Then you can import the file to Excel or some other
>> software to use the records
>> further. Read more on how to do:
>> http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions/#metadata_csv
>>
>> 2. From the start the DOAJ service supports the OAI protocol for
>> metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). Thus, any other service can obtain
>> records from DOAJ for inclusion in that collection through OAI. Read
>> more:
>> http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions/#metadata
>>
>> Please don´t hesitate to ask if you have questions on how you can use
>> the journal descriptions at your own website or in your own search
>> service.
>>
>> At the moment we cover about 560 journals in DOAJ. DOAJ has continued
>> to grow since the launch in May much thanks to all your help with
>> suggestions of new journals. Please continue
>> to send in suggestions by using our form at:
>> http://www.doaj.org/suggest/
>>
>> We´ve got a lot of questions about the possibilities to access the
>> journals titles in different ways. Since the launch we have
>> implemented the following:
>>
>> * Browse by title (available since August),
>> http://www.doaj.org/alpha/
>> * New titles added the last 30 days (available since September),
>> http://www.doaj.org/new/
>> * Full list of titles (available since October),
>> http://www.doaj.org/alpha/ALL/
>>
>> If you would like to know more about the web server statistics for
>> DOAJ, you will find monthly information here:
>> http://www.doaj.org/articles/stat/
>>
>> As for the future we´ve started the second phase of DOAJ, where we
>> will offer a searchable index of the full text articles from journals
>> in the directory. The work started in September 2003 and the new
>> service will be launched during spring 2004:
>> http://www.doaj.org/articles/about/#phase2
>>
>> We would like to thank everyone for the support and hope that we will
>> continue to recieve a lot of feedback so we can make the service
>> better and more useful.
>>
>> Please remember to check our News section now and then, where we will
>> add information continously.
>>
>> Sincerly,
>> The DOAJ project team through Sara Kjellberg
>>
>>
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>> .
>> ....
>> Sara Kjellberg
Telephone: + 46 46 222 93 68
>> Lund University Libraries, Head Office Telefax + 46 46 222 36 82
>> P.O.Box 134, SE-221 00 LUND, Sweden Email:
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