Category — DOAJ

If you can answer yes to any or all of the questions below then you could enter the Digital Repository Contest sponsored by Duraspace, SPARC and Open Access Week.

• Have you been a part of establishing or maintaining a unique digital repository that provides open access to a collection that was previously not used or under-used?
• Do you enjoy showcasing your repository’s content and the cool tools that encourage use of the materials?
• Do you have anecdotes about how access to resources from your repository changed someone’s life, or their thinking on an issue, or contributed to a breakthrough idea?

Please consider sharing your passion and knowledge of collecting, curating managing and sharing digital repository resources from every corner of the globe by entering the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest and telling your story.

The winners will receive a $50 Amazon Gift certificate and be invited to tell their stories during the “All About Repositories” Web Seminar on Oct. 14, 2009.

Entries will be accepted through September 28, 2009. DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest winners will be announced on October 1, 2009 so watch this blog for more information.

We’ve created some cool new button (called badges in the U.K.) designs for Open Access Week 2009.  There are three to choose from or take them all!

• Ask me about OA
• I support OA
• And, a version based on the above theme that is ready for your own message

When you open the files you’ll see that the images are larger than they need to be for a button which is typically 1.25″, we just wanted to show a higher resolution so that you could really see the impact of the design.

We buy our buttons/badges from affordablebuttons.com. All you would have to do is send them them one of these templates, specify your size and quantity and they would do the rest.

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) are pleased to announce that they will jointly host the 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers in Lund, Sweden from the 14th-16th September 2009 at the Scandic Star Hotel.

The conference is directed towards the interests of independent open access journals and professional publishing organizations, as well as librarians, suppliers and other stakeholders. Also those who are interested in learning more about open access publishing and exploring opportunities are welcome.

Participants will have the opportunity to hear from many leading figures within the open access publishing movement, and to participate in workshops that will highlight a number of important issues related to open access publishing. A growing speakers list already includes: Lars Bjornshauge, Director Lund University Library Head Office/DOAJ, John Willinsky, Public Knowledge Project/OJS, Geoff Bilder, CrossRef, Kaitlin Thaney, Creative Commons and Jens Vigens, CERN/SCOAP3.

Additional information on the conference, registration and proposal submissions can found on the conference website. Early bird fees will be available.

Members of OASPA are also invited to participate in the first General Meeting of OASPA which will be held in the afternoon on September 16th at the end of the conference.

The organizing committee, the DOAJ and OASPA look forward to welcoming a broad and international spectrum of publishers and publishing suppliers to the first conference to specifically focus on open access and publishing.

As of today, the Directory of Open Access Journals contains 4000 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web.  Congratulations all round.

The usage of DOAJ is constantly increasing. Every month they have more than 8 million hits; hundreds of libraries all over the world have included the DOAJ titles in their catalogues and other services and commercial aggregators are also benefiting from this service.

The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is still to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, and thereby promote their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in about 50 languages can be found and all subject areas are welcome. The DOAJ contains journals from 98 countries and to maintain the quality of the service they have also removed titles that no longer live up to the selection criteria. - 94 titles were removed during 2008.

DOAJ is sponsored by the National Library of Sweden, INASP, Swedish Library Association, Lund University.

In February 2007 a membership program was launched in order to create a sustainable financial foundation for the continuing operation and development of DOAJ.  Today DOAJ has 13 individuals, 80 libraries, universities and research centers, 10 library consortia and 2 aggregators as members. Thanks to all of them for their  support!