{"id":2366,"date":"2020-01-14T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:29:29","slug":"2019-in-review-and-whats-coming-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/es\/2020\/01\/14\/2019-in-review-and-whats-coming-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 in review and what’s coming in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a new year and a new decade. This year, DOAJ turns 17 and much like a teenager, we have seen a major growth spurt over the last 4 years, peaking at a total of 14.25 million unique users at the end of 2019. 2020 will see further transformation into a maturer, more rounded service.<\/p>\n

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Usage of DOAJ, 2015 to 2019 (Source: Google Analytics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2019<\/h4>\n

2019 was another busy year, focussed on preparing DOAJ for adulthood. We added muscle to the bones by increasing our capacity in the platform and in our editorial team and thereby increasing our throughput. Never before has DOAJ been such a lean operation on such a large scale.<\/p>\n

Much of the process to get to where we are today was written about in September, in a guest post by Richard Jones<\/a> from Cottage Labs, so I’m just focussing on the last quarter here.<\/p>\n

Since October 2019, we updated the DOAJ search interface<\/a>–a program called Edges–and upgraded to Python 3<\/a>. We extended our automated testing scripts and fixed a variety of bugs or discrepancies which they subsequently uncovered.<\/p>\n

I am pleased to say that these pieces of work have been so successful that in 2019 we had 99.999% uptime, a huge improvement on previous years.<\/p>\n

On the front end, we added more translations of the COPE\/DOAJ\/OASPA\/WAME co-authored Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing<\/a> which is now available in 20 different languages. We cleaned up our articles database by removing many old, malformed or duplicated entries.<\/p>\n

We also improved our crawler which is pointed at Europe PMC’s API and added 13,200 PLoS articles<\/a> which were missing from the database.<\/p>\n

The start of the redesign project saw us focussing our efforts on design research:<\/p>\n