Re: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

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

I've redone my analysis of the rate of launches of new journals
listed in DOAJ, based on the newly increased total

Interestingly, although the subsequent decline is less steep, the
peak in 2001 is still very evident.  While it is possible that
new journals take a while to get around to notifying DOAJ of
their existence, I'm not convinced that this entirely explains
the shape of the graph.

The figures are as follows (I have ignored launches before 1980,
which were few and sporadic, and - obviously - the 2006 figure):

       1980 4
       1981 5
       1982 2
       1983 5
       1984 2
       1985 1
       1986 3
       1987 2
       1988 4
       1989 2
       1990 13
       1991 7
       1992 10
       1993 22
       1994 29
       1995 69
       1996 113
       1997 148
       1998 138
       1999 122
       2000 222
       2001 266
       2002 226
       2003 218
       2004 217
       2005 131

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorgensen Lotte" <Lotte.Jorgensen@lub.lu.se>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:50 PM
Subject: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

> For Immediate Release January 13, 2006
>
> For more information, contact:
> Lars Bjornshauge, lars.bjornshauge@lub.lu.se
> Lotte Jorgensen lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se
>
> http://www.lub.lu.se/index.html.en
>
> THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS REACHES AN IMPORTANT
> MILESTONE - NOW THERE ARE 2000 JOURNALS IN THE DOAJ
>
> Lund, Sweden - As of today the Directory of Open Access Journals
> (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org) contains 2000 open access journals,
> i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic
> journals that are freely available on the web.
>
> 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.
>
> We are very happy to see that the usage of the DOAJ is constantly
> increasing on all parameters. Every month visitors from more than
> 150 countries are using the service, 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.
>
> New titles are added frequently and to ensure that the holding
> information is correct you have to update your records regularly.
> We also have to remove titles from DOAJ if they no longer lives
> up to the selection criteria e.g. during the last 6 months of
> 2005 50 titles where removed.
>
> We are working with publishers of hybrid journals (subscription
> based journals where authors /institutions for a publication
> charge can publish articles in open access) in order to include
> even these articles in the DOAJ. It is our intention to be able
> to inform about this in the near future.
>
> Feedback form the community tells us that the DOAJ is an
> important service. In order to be able to maintain and further
> develop the service we have decided to launch a Donation
> Programme that makes it possible for all users/institutions to
> contribute to the continued maintenance and development of DOAJ.
> If you/your institution would consider contributing please go to
> http://www.doaj.org/articles/donation for further information.
>
> 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) 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 Bjorrnshauge
>
>
> Lotte Jorgensen
> Lund University Libraries, Head Office
> Tel: 046-222 34 31
> Fax: 046-222 36 82
> E-mail: lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se
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