DOAJ: community funded, community driven, international

Community Funded, Community Driven, International

Dom MitchellCommunity Manager

[email protected]

Virtual Knowledge Web:Europeanization of Scientific Communication in

the Digital AgeBerlin, 18-20 March 2015

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selection processes | procedures | standards | international |

community-originated | bottom-up projects | a common ground | publicly funded | centralisation |

gateway | aggregator

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The problem

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How to start an open access journal: http://bit.ly/1tbyfSo

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Our solution

Standards-based Open-source software Collaboration Encourage this in journal publishing among

publishers through EDUCATION

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What is DOAJ?

A gateway to pre-selected high quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals from all over the world

A whitelist Curated by the community Journals from ALL disciplines 122 languages

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What is DOAJ?

A hub for the display and collection of metadata 3rd parties link to, or collect and distribute Publishers want to:

– prove their quality, intentions

– have equal visibility alongside the large publishers

– get a mark of approval

– Increase their submissions Researchers get access to 1.8 million articles

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Internationality

DOAJ staff: 15 languages

Journals from 136 countries Volunteers from 10 countries

Global usage

Global content

Based in Sweden & Denmark

International advisory board

Content in 122 languages

Registered in the UK

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Usage by countrySept '14 - Feb '15, Top 20 countries

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Top 20 Countrieswith the most journals in DOAJ

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Usage by European CountrySept '14 - Feb '15, 31/50 countries

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What is our aim? To be the starting point for all searches,

globally, for open access journals or their articles– maintain an international relevance:

curate partnerships worldwide– increase visibility and awareness, globally.– sensitive to geo-political, social, cultural,

linguistic differences

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How are we funded?

Funded by donors and sponsors Libraries, consortia, research centres, library

associations Data aggregators, publishing services, publishers A few private individuals Why?

– To prove their OA credentials– To gain status– To cement their dedication to OA movement

Have only ever received funding from one funding body: FWF (Austrian Science Fund)

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Online communities

Involve the community and increase our transparency by sharing information online:

Blog: DOAJ News Service http://doajournals.wordpress.com

Forums: public consultations Social media

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Facebook fans

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Online communities

Students and young researchers via Facebook Higher-qualified academia/faculty, researchers,

professionals (librarians, publishers, statisticians), open access enthusiasts via Twitter. Generally older.

LinkedIn: almost exclusively publishing and marketing professionals

Google+: Google staff!

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Our new application form collects 55 pieces of information which all need to be checked for ~10 300 journals.

We use a network of 100 volunteers to do this work. A crowdsourcing model: gets the community directly

involved with DOAJ IMPORTANTLY: these are NOT the people who fund us.

A community of volunteers

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A community of volunteers

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Thank [email protected]

http://doaj.org/supportDoaj