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For Immediate Release October 14, 2006

For more information, contact:

Lars Bjornshauge, lars.bjornshauge@lub.lu.se
Lotte Jorgensen, lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se

NEW SERVICE IN THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

Lund, Sweden - It is with great pleasure that we today can
announce the launch of "For Authors Service" in the Directory of
Open Access Journals (<http://www.doaj.org/>). The service is a
look up service for authors who wants to publish their research
as open access. As of today researchers can find information
about the "pure" OA journals from DOAJ and about the "hybrid"
journals that for a fee allow the authors to publish their
research as OA in an otherwise subscription based journal. For a
closer look at the new service go to <http://www.doaj.org/> and
choose "For authors" in the menu. We are aware that we don't have
the "author pays" information for all journal titles we are
working on collecting this information and if anyone has
information about a journal we appreciate if you share it with
us.

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 all languages and subject areas will be
included in the DOAJ. The selection criteria have been updated
based on feedback from users to be more understandable
<(http://www.doaj.org/articles/about#criteria>).

The database records are freely available for reuse in library
catalogues and other services and can be harvested by using the
OAI-PMH (<http://www.openarchives.org/>), and thereby increase
the visibility of the open access journals.

DOAJ is or has been supported by the Information Program of the
Open Society Institute (http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/), along
with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition), (http://www.arl.org/sparc) SPARC Europe,
(http://www.sparceurope.org/), BIBSAM, the Royal Library of
Sweden (http://www.kb.se <http://www.kb.se/> ) and Axiell
(http://www.axiell.se/)

If you know of a journal that should be included in the
directory, use this form to report it to the directory:
http://www.doaj.org/suggest. Information about how to obtain DOAJ
records for use in a library catalogue or other service you will
find at: http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions#metadata.

Thank you for your interest and support!

Lotte Jorgensen
Lars Bjornshauge


Lotte Jorgensen
Lund University Libraries, Head Office
P.O.Box 134, SE-221 00 LUND, Sweden
Visiting address Tornavagen 9B, Lund
Tel: 46-222 34 31
Fax: 46-222 36 82
E-mail: lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se
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