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Category: Metadata

Article uploads: the importance of an ISSN

This is a reminder that in February this year we tightened up procedures for article uploads. This includes checks that … More

API, article metadata, issn

We’ve added 2 new columns to the journal CSV.

In a series of enhancements to article metadata, we have released the third today.* If you are familiar with DOAJ … More

article metadata, CSV, DOAJ Seal, journal metadata, Seal

Full DOAJ data dump now available

“We’re going to a hackathon and would love to work with DOAJ’s data! Do you have a dump of all … More

article metadata, data dump, database, downloads, journal metadata, metadata

Are you using an up-to-date version of DOAJ metadata? Apparently not.

Did you know that DOAJ’s metadata refreshes every 30 minutes? Given how many changes we, the DOAJ Team, make to … More

API, article metadata, journal metadata, metadata

Infrastructure and why sustainable funding so important to services like DOAJ

You can’t run a service like DOAJ on a shoestring, or fund it on a hand-to-mouth basis, which is how … More

Cottage Labs, deep paging, downtime, ElasticSearch, SCOSS, Steven Eardley

Update on discontinued journals

DOAJ will remove all journals that have ceased to publish unless they are continued by another title. Although reversing a previous … More

Parts of DOAJ metadata in my catalogue/discovery service/A-Z List have changed, are out-of-date or are missing completely. Why?

It’s time to update your index and/or ask your discovery service provider to do so! We have received  several messages … More

advice, database, indexing, librarians, search, subject browser

We have improved our XML validation

We are happy to announce that we have improved the features of our xml validation. As an article XML is uploaded … More

The Redalyc JATS project strides towards standardisation.

Every now and then we hear news that is music to our ears and this time its news from Redalyc … More

Arianna Becerril, JATS, JATS4R, Latin America, metadata, Redalyc, XML

A lot goes a long way: data quality improvement at DOAJ

Since 2012, DOAJ has been on a path of data quality improvement. DOAJ metadata is used all over the world … More

article counts, article metadata, data quality, Hindawi, metadata, PLoS

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