RE: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

[J�rgensen Lotte <Lotte.Jorgensen@LUB.LU.SE>]

What I said was: "We don't have start dates we have "OA from 
year" and "Added to DOAJ - date"."

And since we work with this every day we know exactly what we 
mean when we say it but it is not always easy for others to 
understand.

The "Start dates" in the file you get from the DOAJ site are the 
year the first open access available content is from. This means 
that a journal can "go OA" in 2001 and also decide to make all 
content published from 1995 OA that journal would get "Start 
date" 1995 in DOAJ.

We don't have the information about when a journal first went OA.
If it is still not clear please let me know.

Best regards,
Lotte

Lotte Jorgensen
Lund University Libraries, Head Office
P.O.Box 134, SE-221 00 LUND, Sweden
Visiting address Tornavagen 9B, Lund
Tel: 046-222 34 31
Fax: 046-222 36 82
E-mail: lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se


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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris
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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:21 AM
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Subject: Re: Press release: 2000 JOURNALS IN DOAJ

That's odd - Lotte assured me that the 'start date' column (which 
I used) was when the journal went OA.  THough looking at it, that 
cannot be the case - there were no OA journals in 1911!

Lotte, can you confirm what this column does in fact mean?

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