Re: DOAJ update

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

When our analysis is complete I will be happy to notify DOAJ of all titles
which are effectively dead

I believe that our researchers, Kaufman-Wills, have already communicated
the not insubstantial list of those whose contact emails don't work

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J�rgensen Lotte" <Lotte.Jorgensen@lub.lu.se>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 2:51 AM
Subject: RE: DOAJ update

> DOAJ relay on feedback from users. When we get information on changes,
> dead links, new titles we correct the information we have in DOAJ,
> remove or add titles to the database for the benefit of all.  We do our
> utmost to be as current as possible but without feedback it is not
> possible for us without building an organization that would make it
> unsustainable.  The large user population is giving us mainly feedback
> on new titles. I believe we can become better at maintaining the current
> collection than we are right now and one of the ways would be to
> encourage users to supply us with information on dead links and titles
> that are not updated.  We are working on an update of the DOAJ criteria
> <http://www.doaj.org/articles/about#criteria> and we might include a
> section on yearly publisher feedback to us as mandatory for inclusion in
> DOAJ.  If any of you have ideas for the criteria's you are very welcome
> to mail them to me.
>
> Best regards,
> Lotte
>
> Lotte Jorgensen
> Lund University Libraries, Head Office
> P.O.Box 134, SE-221 00 LUND, Sweden
> Visiting address Tornav�gen 9B, Lund
> Tel: 046-222 34 31
> Fax: 046-222 36 82
> E-mail: lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sally Morris (ALPSP) [mailto:sally.morris@alpsp.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:18 AM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: DOAJ update
>
> The 'volunteer' analysis of what's actually in there is continuing apace -
> I have data so far on 523 journals (i.e more than a third of those in the
> list) and hope to receive the rest shortly.
>
> Interestingly, a small but significant proportion are 'dead' - website
> permanently down, or no new articles since 2003.  In a paid-for-journals
> world, these would no longer be listed as current...
>
> Sally Morris, Chief Executive
> Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
> E-mail:  sally.morris@alpsp.org