Here’s some good news for a Thursday.
In May we will be starting our next development projects: a metadata harvester and an API.
For the harvester, we will run a pilot phase collecting the PLoS metadata. Just by gathering PLoS metadata alone, we will very quickly double our existing article count. In 2016, we’ll scale up the harvester to seek out and collect article metadata for as many DOAJ-indexed journals as possible that do not have metadata associated with them.
The API will have two functions. Although we haven’t finalised the details, it is our intention that it will allow publishers to bulk upload their own article metadata without having to manually upload an XML file. For our mega-publishers, such as Redalyc, SciELO, BMC and PLoS, this will ensure their journals are always up-to-date in DOAJ with the latest article content. It will also allow bulk applications by publishers of new journals. Secondly, the API will provide an interface into our database that will allow custom queries of the data and advanced analysis.
These developments take serious funding so if you haven’t yet donated to us then please consider becoming a Publisher Member, a Member or a Sponsor. With the community’s help, we can greatly improve the visibility of quality, peer-reviewed open access content.
I’ll post more details as soon as I know them.
Hi,
I would be very interested to find out if we can access the DOAJ API to obtain links to research paper PDFs and basic metadata.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Tim
The API is in development and is pencilled for a release after the summer. It’s early days so that’s all the information I have just now. As soon as it is ready we will publish supporting documentation as well. Hope that helps!