Hello Håkan,
I have been working on a project on the JISC Repositories programme for
the last 2 years, and have just embarked on another. This service looks
extremely useful in promoting many of the interoperability objectives of
the programme and I just wanted to briefly explain my thoughts here:
First, it would be very useful to allow the user to easily filter
results so that they can quickly bring back journal titles that are open
access.
On a slightly more technical level it would also be very useful to see
which titles implement the important interoperability specifications
e.g. (federated search) Z39.50/ SRW/ SRU and (harvesting) OAI-PMH. To my
mind this is a relevant aspect of the quality of service from the
perspective of the user (without needing to worry about the technical
specifications of course). Also I don't know if you are aware that in
the UK there is work going on to provide a machine to machine service
registry search based on UDDI or a similar specification. I think the
data you have brought together would be very useful in supporting this
effort. There is some information about this work here: http://iesr.ac.uk/
Congratulations anyway, and regards,
Howard Noble
PS. If I haven't explain this well, but it sounds of interest then
please get back to me off list
Håkan Carlsson wrote:
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> Lund University Libraries has, with financial support from the National Library of Sweden, put together a new tool to support researchers in their choice of journal for publication. The service, called "Journal Info", gives fast and simple access to journal information through a web interface, http://jinfo.lub.lu.se <http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/> . The journal information is divided up in general, accessibility, cost and quality and each area is supported by a number of relevant points. You can e.g. find in which databases a journal is indexed, how much it costs for the library to subscribe and which alternative OA journals exists. A total of 18,000 journals are currently supported in the database.
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> The service takes its aim at the researchers themselves and includes explanations for the interested beginner. The information is compiled from a larger number of services and will continually be updated. The service is designed to be a complement to DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org), which is also produced in Lund.
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> Welcome to test the new service. Please send comments and forward the announcement to fellow researchers and colleagues.
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