Re: Indexing services including more fulltext

[Pippa Smart <psmart@inasp.info>]

The African journals online service - www.ajol.info - now includes some
full text. The service hosts about 200 African-published journals, with
the abstracts and tables of contents free to view, and document delivery
available (free to researchers from LDCs). However a few journals are now
considering moving online, and some are considering Open Access to promote
their content more worldwide. The first journal available in full text on
the service is SAHARA-J (a South African Medical journal), and others are
working towards placing their full text on the service.

Pippa

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At 23:45 31/01/2005, you wrote:
> Indexing services are including more fulltext, thanks to open access.
> Following is one example - there are others, and I would love to hear
> about them - as well as a question that might be useful to ask in the
> context of licensing discussions.
>
> Example 1:  from Peter Suber's Open Access News Blog, Monday, January 24
> at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
>
> [snip]
>
> HW Wilson adding OA journals to its database
>
> Mark Chillingworth, OA journals join HW Wilson abstracts, Information
> World Review, January 24, 2005. Excerpt: 'US academic database publisher
> HW Wilson is embracing open access publishing by adding 38 OA journals to
> its Education Full Text database. The company is adding 49 new journals in
> total to Education Full Text, and simultaneously boosting its Readers'
> Guide Full Text database with the addition of 25 magazines.'
>
> [snip]
>
> Question for licensing specialist to ask vendors of indexing services:
>
> What are your plans to add value to your service through linking directly
> to quality open access resources?
>
> Those who are tired of all the detail in those OA discussions might be
> interested to know that Peter Suber has written a Very Short Introduction
> to OA - the link is available from his Open Access Overview at
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.  Written in December,
> this has already been translated into 5 languages.
>
> cheers!
>
> Heather Morrison