DOAJ Launches Phase 2

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has implemented "phase 2" its directory of more than 1100 open access journals -- i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web -- and now includes records at article level and a search functionality allowing users to search articles in potentially all Open Access Journals. Over 270 of the 1100 journals are searchable on article level and both numbers are growing. Researchers can now search almost 46.000 articles through the Directory of Open Access Journals and be sure to get access to the articles.

The database records are freely available for reuse in other services and can be harvested by using the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol (OAI-PMH), thus further increasing the visibility of the journals. The article level records will be available for harvesting within 2 months.

Posted by Tom on June 16, 2004