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NOW THERE ARE 4000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ!

For Immediate Release April 1st, 2009

NOW THERE ARE 4000 JOURNALS IN THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS 
JOURNALS!

Lund, Sweden - As of today the Directory of Open Access Journals 
(DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org) contains 4000 open access journals, 
i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic 
journals that are freely available on the web.

The usage of DOAJ is constantly increasing. Every month we 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 as well benefiting of the 
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. Now there are journals from 98 
countries in DOAJ. To maintain the quality of the service we also 
have to remove titles from DOAJ if they no longer live up to the 
selection criteria. 94 titles have been removed during 2008.

DOAJ is sponsored by the National Library of Sweden INASP, 
Swedish Library Association, and 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 got 13 individuals, 80 libraries, universities and 
research centers, 10 library consortia and 2 aggregators as 
members. Thanks to all our members for the most needed support!

We are constantly working on evaluating more journals to be 
included in the service, therefore we still need support from the 
community! Please turn to 
<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=3Dmembership> for becoming a DOAJ 
member!

Thank you for your interest and support!

Lars Bjornshauge
Anna-Lena Johansson & The DOAJ-team