From: Lotte Jorgensen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:26:03 +0100

March 12th 2013

DOAJ reaches new milestones:

We have just completed the transition to a new environment and
launched a new platform with integrated functionality for sharing,
exporting and enhanced search/browse functionality: at the article
level, search results can be filtered by language and publication year
 and by license and publication fee; at the journal level, you can
filter by subject, by country, by license and by publication fees.
These facets will be developed further in the months to come. (Read
more about our enhancements on our home page: www.doaj.org.)

We are also very proud to announce that the DOAJ has reached two
important milestones:

* For the first time since launch in 2003, more than 50% of the
journals are providing metadata at article level. We will continue to
work with the 2000+ publishers to increase this figure.

* More than 1 million articles are now searchable in DOAJ which means
more than 1 million article-level metadata entries are available for
harvesting! We expect this figure to increase significantly in the
months to come.

We continue to work with key stakeholders to agree on and implement
new, tighter criteria for the inclusion of journals in the DOAJ:
critieria that will address issues of quality and openness, as well as
other kinds of information about the journals.

We are very excited about these developments and we are grateful for
the continued support from the community. We always need more support
so we can continue to provide a better service, so please consider
contributing: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTemplate&template=supportDoaj&uiLanguage=en

For more information, please contact Lars Bjørnshauge or Dom Mitchell

The Directory of Open Access Journals is provided by IS4OA in
cooperation with SemperTool .

On behalf of the DOAj-team,
Lotte Jorgensen
Managing Editor