Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
Directory of Open Access Journals is hosted, maintained and partly funded by Lund University Libraries Head Office.
DOAJ has received or is receiving funding from:
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Open Access Journal:
We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" we take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.
[1] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess
Quality Control:
The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.
Research Journal:
Journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community.
Periodical:
A serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings.
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Coverage:
- Subject: all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered
- Types of resource: scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text.
- Acceptable sources: academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources are all acceptable.
- Level: the target group for included journals should be primarily researchers.
- Content: a substantive part of the journal should consist of research papers. All content should be available in full text.
- All languages
Access:
- All content freely available.
- Registration: Free user registration online is acceptable.
- Open Access without delay (e.g. no embargo period).
Quality:
Quality control: for a journal to be included it should exercise quality control on submitted papers through an editor, editorial board and/or a peer-review system.
Periodical:
The journal should have an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number, for information see http://www.issn.org).
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Use "Find journals" to search for journals included in DOAJ. The system will search through all fields in the record so you can direct your search query to any of the following fields:
Journal Title
The title of the journal.
ISSN
The ISSN number of the journal.
Start Year
When the journal became electronically available as open access in full text.
End Year (only if it is continued by a new journal)
When the journal ceased to exist.
Subject
The topic of the journal.
Keywords
Keywords of the topic of the journal.
Publisher
The entity responsible for the publishing of the journal.
Country
Country of publication.
Language
Language(s) of the full text articles.
Use "Search articles" to search for articles in the journals having DOAJ CONTENT.
You can choose to make your search in any of the following fields:
- All fields
- Title
- Journal title
- ISSN
- Author
- Keywords
- Abstract
If you write more than one word in your search query it will be treated as a phrase. You also have the possibility to use the Boolean operators and, or, not.
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Yes, based on year this is presented in two lists, showing:
- which journals have been included during a specific year and when (the date)
- the total number of journals included so far from a specific country
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The DOAJ service supports the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting
(OAI-PMH).
Thus, any other service can obtain records from DOAJ for inclusion in
their collection. OAI is well established, and easy to use.
The base URL is: http://www.doaj.org/oai . You can add most
OAI verbs and other commands directly on that. A few examples:
Verb: Identify
http://www.doaj.org/oai?verb=Identify
Verb: ListMetadataFormats
http://www.doaj.org/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
Verb: ListRecords&from=2004-01-01&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
http://www.doaj.org/oai?verb=ListRecords&from=2004-03-01&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
From these URLs you'll get both an idea of what OAI is, and much of our
metadata. See also our example.
You have also the possibility 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. Do as follows:
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Download the file from http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=csv to your own computer
- Open e.g. Excel
- Go to the menu Data -> Get External Data -> Import Text File
- From there you can choose how you want the spread sheet to look like e.g., delimited-> Comma -> General
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The article level metadata can be harvested using OAI protocol.
The base URL is: http://www.doaj.org/oai.article
Use OAI verbs and other command options directly on that.
Example:
Verb: ListRecords&from=2004-07-01&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
http://www.doaj.org/oai.article?verb=ListRecords&from=2004-07-15&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
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The data in DOAJ is licensed to you under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike License. The essence of copy of this license is
explained on the creative
commons web site. (You may also be
interested in the fine print.)
Note that everything that is free comes with no guarantee. So, mind you, if you ever stumble over an Open Access
Journal cataloged by us, and break your leg, then don't blame us!
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Because we have not found any journals in that area yet. Suggestions are welcome, please use our form to suggest a journal for inclusion in DOAJ.
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Maybe we have not found out about the journal, please use our form to suggest a journal for inclusion in DOAJ. Or the journal unfortunately doesn't match our selection criteria eg. the articles have to be freely available from the publishing date. See selection criteria
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Here you find the most recently added journals in DOAJ. The list is automatically updated and shows by default the journals which have been added during the last month. Please observe that the list is not based on calender months, but on the last 30 days.
You also have the option to make your own list based on the dates that are of interest to you - just type the date and time and submit.
Go to "New Titles"
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Yes, read more about Self-Archiving and Open Archives in the Southampton Self-Archiving FAQ.
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OAI, Open Archives Initiative, supplies a common framework to web communities that allows them to gain access to content in a standard manner by means of metadata harvesting.
A Seal to Set Standards for Open Access Journals.
SPARC Europe and DOAJ have entered an agreement about introducing a certification scheme for Open Access journals, the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals.
To receive the "Seal" the journal has to choose the CC-BY license (Creative Commons license) and provide DOAJ with metadata on article level.
What are the advantages of having the SPARC Europe Seal?
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Improved information as to what users are allowed to do with papers published in an open access journal.
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Possible long-term archiving of content, which makes publishing in the journal more attractive to authors.
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Better exposure as a high-quality journal based on state-of-the art dissemination technologies.
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The DOAJ team converts the metadata and makes it harvestable, which means the widest possible dissemination and thus increased usage and impact.
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How to be approved:
Step 1:
Choose the Creative Commons License CC-BY license.
In order to qualify for the SPARC Europe Seal you must apply the CC-BY license, which is the most user friendly license, allowing among other things for long-term preservation and text- and data mining.
How to choose the CC-BY license:
Go to the Creative Commons (CC) web site (http://creativecommons.org/about/license) and copy the CC-BY Icon - you might as well consult this: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing .
Put the CC-BY icon on the homepage of your journal(s) and preferably on each article in your journal.
Go to the DOAJ web site (http://www.doaj.org), login to "For journal owners", click on "license info" and choose CC-license for your journal(s).
The CC icon will be shown automatically in DOAJ.
Step 2:
Your journal(s) shall continuously provide DOAJ with metadata for all of your content.
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Please go to our membership page for further information.
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