{"id":1794,"date":"2017-11-09T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2025-08-22T02:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:41:44","slug":"international-coalition-to-help-sustain-doaj-and-its-further-development-in-the-coming-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2017\/11\/09\/international-coalition-to-help-sustain-doaj-and-its-further-development-in-the-coming-years\/","title":{"rendered":"International coalition to help sustain DOAJ and its further development in the coming years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SCOSS (The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)<\/a>\u00a0today announced<\/a> that major organizations have recom<\/span>mended to their member institutions to support DOAJ\u00a0with funding that will enable DOAJ to move towards a new crowdfunding effort and away from its incremental annual contribution system. Under the new model organisations will work towards sustaining DOAJ for the coming 3 years, giving it more stability for the mid-term. This will enable DOAJ to develop a fully comprehensive, longer term development plan for its systems and services.<\/span><\/p>\n

For a decade the funding of DOAJ has been based on contributions from individual libraries, library consortia<\/a> and research funders<\/a> from many countries around the globe.\u00a0<\/span>We are extremely grateful for their continuous support and we are looking forward to welcoming many of them as contributors under the SCOSS initiative.<\/p>\n

These contributions have allowed DOAJ to develop step by step and thus become one the most important freely available resources for Open Access.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an initial step, DOAJ will introduce a governance structure that will allow for more active influence from the community on strategic directions for DOAJ.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new SCOSS funding drive<\/a> will enable DOAJ to:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Engage in strategic longer term development of the services and systems behind our operations.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Provide adequate resource to cover the large number of applications coming in to DOAJ (currently 500+ per month).<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Actively curate its list thereby keeping the index more up to date and relevant.<\/li>\n
  4. Enable publishers to update their own journal information, keeping records relevant.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Continue efforts to assess and include journals from the Global South<\/a> to make DOAJ even more comprehensive on a global scale.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Continue our advocacy work directed at influencing decision makers to support a transition to open access for local language journals.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Implement functionality that will allow DOAJ to actively harvest article-level metadata from the 10,000 journals that are currently indexed. Currently more than 70% of the journals are providing (parts of) their article-level metadata (aproximately 2,700,000 records) and are exposing these via the OAI-PMH<\/a>\u00a0service and our API<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Enhance the DOAJ metadata via collaboration and integration with relevant organizations, enriching the metadata records with DOIs, integrated article-level metrics (ALMs), ORCID IDs etc.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Stabilise and build out the platform that underpins the DOAJ and its database to ensure that it remains fit-for-purpose and operational at least until 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please contact Managing Director Lars Bj\u00f8rnshauge \u2013\u00a0lars@doaj.org<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 for more information or visit the SCOSS web site<\/a>\u00a0for the complete details.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SCOSS (The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)\u00a0today announced that major organizations have recommended to their member institutions to support DOAJ\u00a0with funding that will enable DOAJ to move towards a new crowdfunding effort and away from its incremental annual contribution system. Under the new model organisations will work towards sustaining DOAJ for the coming…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[613,620],"tags":[627,241,465],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-press-release","tag-development","tag-funding","tag-scoss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}