Lund University Libraries Head Office Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) & Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) Trends in Education and research: Developing Skills and Communication across Europé UNICA Seminar 18-19 May, 2006 Helsinki Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries
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Lund University LibrariesHead Office
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) & Directory of
Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
Trends in Education and research: Developing Skills and Communication
across Europé
UNICA Seminar
18-19 May, 2006
Helsinki
Lars Björnshauge, Lund University Libraries
The purpose of the DOAJ
• Making it easier for Open Access Scholarly content to be found, read, used and cited
• Be a part of the emerging infrastructure of the Open Access Movement
• readers to find OA-material• authors to find a journal to publish in OA• OA-publishers to get their journals visible• Aggregators & Libraries to integrate OA-
Language Number of journals receiving articles in that language
(September 2005)
English 1535
Spanish 314
Portuguese 172
French 101
German 73
Japanese 30
Italian 28
Russian 19
Turkish 13
Catalan 6
Croatian 4
Czech 4
Chinese 4
Usage of the DOAJ service
• Every month visits from 150+ countries• Requested files increasing• Distinct host served increasing• Amount of data transferred increasing• Visits from OAI-harvesters increasing• Number of abstracts presented increasing• Number of links to articles followed increasing
• Global visibility and dissemination of records– Integrated in OPAC´s in many, many libraries– Several service providers are linking into DOAJ– Integrated in the services of aggregators (Ullrichs,
Ebsco, OVID etc.)
• Frequently referred to as the most important listing
OpenDOAR - vision• To improve the quality in, dissemination of and
communication around repositories by providing:– A Directory with entries sorted by content, location,
constituency, etc
– A Registry with registration services, FAQs and listed desriptions based on technical and metadata aspects
– A Bridge between repository administrators and service providers
– A Resource of materials and links of use to repository administrators
– A Focus for discussion and contact between repository administrators
OpenDOAR – so far
• The Directory– Search– Browse– FAQ– Feedback– Suggest a repository
• Currently 380 repositories
A very diverse landscape!
• Enthusiasm and establishment from many levels– Subject based– Institutionally based– Departmentally based
• Content types are expanding– multiple-type holdings based on institution
• Various software solutions• But still: many repositories to be considered as
projects rather than services!
Quality problems & confusion
• Open Access– but not OAI-PMH, not scholarly material– but not immediate access– but not full-text– but hedged with restrictive rights-limitations
• Unclear– descriptions of the repository– use licenses– re-use policy– archiving policy– definitions of content types– collection policy– subjects covered– etc etc
Three types of use(rs)• Service providers
– Harvesting metadata for aggregated services (Google, OAIster, BASE etc.)
– Service providers need a way of contacting and liaising with repository administrators as a body
• Meta-users– Analyse and utilise metadata and repository descriptions– Funders want to check whether their research is suitably housed and
see how it is used– OA advocates need repository overviews and statistics – All stakeholders need clarity on the overall scale, scope and
development of the repository network– Institutional managers need overviews of colleague and competitor
situations• Researchers
– Target individual documents/objects– View repositories through search service
Funded by . . .
OpenDOAR development
• Survey existing repositories• Look at each single repository• Test against metadata description• Check adequate description can be provided• Contact repository administrator with information• Produce useful classification structure• Build full directory and registry service • Create update and maintenance procedures
SHERPA/RoMEO
• Continuing project & under development:
• Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list
• www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Open Access Infrastructure
• Three components:– Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ)
– Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
– Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving – the SHERPA/ROMEO-list