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DOAJ festeggia il compleanno.<br>
saluti <br>
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<td>[GOAL] DOAJ celebrates 10 years at the heart of Open
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<td>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:46:45 +0200 (CEST)</td>
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<td>Dom Mitchell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dom@doaj.org"><dom@doaj.org></a></td>
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<td>Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:goal@eprints.org"><goal@eprints.org></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a></td>
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<p style="margin: 0;" id="mceDummy"><span style="font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Dear colleagues,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;"><em>Copenhagen, Denmark</em> - It is now 10
years since a new initiative was set in motion: The Directory of
Open Access Journals is the result of a unique venture between
Lund University Libraries, supported by the Information Program
of the Open Society Institute (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/">http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/</a>),
along with SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition, (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sparceurope.org">http://sparceurope.org</a>).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=42&uiLanguage=en">Back
in February 2003</a>, the then Program Manager of the Open
Access Program at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/information-program">Open
Society Foundations</a>, Melissa Hagemann said, somewhat
prophetically, "Open access journals can compete with
traditional subscription-based journals if librarians and users
are made aware of these titles, and the Directory of Open Access
Journals is the way to publicise their existence." Happily, she
was right and today, DOAJ sits at the very heart of open access
scholarly content on the web.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">Today, Melissa told us that the "Directory
[has] become a major reference tool for the scholarly
communications community. Back in 2002, when OSF helped to
define OA, we thought that it wasn't enough to simply call for
the development of OA journals, but we knew that there had to be
a guide or directory where users could find and access these
open resources. Thus we were pleased to support the development
of the DOAJ and have been proud to see that it is now a resource
used by libraries throughout the world." Today, DOAJ receives
over 12 million page requests a month, lists journals in 51
different languages, from 119 countries and is used the whole
world over.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">Today it is hard to imagine a world without
the open access publishing model, without open access content
freely available online for everyone to use, re-use and add to.
Back in 2002, it was a very different story and the open access
model was struggling to gain a real footing in the scholarly
publishing communities. Libraries were struggling to retain
journal collections as they saw their budgets cut and
subscription prices hiked. The open access movement was seen as
a radical one, looked on with some derision by traditional
publishers. Therefore, one of the primary tasks of establishing
the DOAJ was to increase the visibility on the web and in
library holdings of open access content, alongside the more
traditional fee-based journals. Who would have thought that in
ten years’ time, we would see scholarly content from
well-established publishers rubbing shoulders with content from
emerging territories, from newborn journals and from journals
with experimental business or publishing models? And yet, the
content indexed in DOAJ today is all that and more.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">Over the years, open access journals have
developed rapidly and so have the demands and expectations of
the online communities consuming the information published. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=3&uiLanguage=en">DOAJ
has already started strategic partnerships</a> to carry it
through the next 10 years: a new home under the management of
Infrastructure Services for Open Access (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.is4oa.org/">www.is4oa.org</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true">), </a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=43&uiLanguage=en">a
new platform implemented by SemperTool</a>(<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sempertool.dk/">www.sempertool.dk</a>)
and new, tighter criteria for including journals in DOAJ.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">DOAJ’s various stakeholders – researchers,
funders, universities, libraries, and users - all have demands
and expectations of the DOAJ service and thus the next ten years
will see continued development of services so that DOAJ can
strive to meet and exceed expectations. Collaboration and being
an active part in the community is key to DOAJ’s success so we
will be interacting more with the community that has supported
us so avidly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">DOAJ’s managing director, Lars Bjørnshauge,
said “We are very grateful for the support over the years from
all of our members, supporters & sponsors and we are
delighted that DOAJ has reached such an important milestone.
While we have already made such great progress in 2013, I feel
that we have so much more to do. I hope that DOAJ can continue
to count on support from the community and allow us to reach our
goals over the next 10 years.â€</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;">Find out <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTemplate&template=supportDoaj&uiLanguage=en">more
information on how to support</a> DOAJ.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thank you for reading, </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Best wishes, Dom</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
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