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He became Managing Editor of DOAJ in January 2013. He has vast experience in: change management; the re-engineering of academic libraries; the development of information services for research & higher education. He has been a strong advocat of open access and for providing services to the open access movement (open access to research publications). He is co-founder of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://www.opendoar.org/" target="_new">OpenDOAR</a> and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://www.doabooks.org/" target="_new">Directory of Open Access Books</a>. Since 2011, he is the Director of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://sparceurope.org/" target="_new">SPARC Europe</a>.</p> <p><b>Rikard Brage – Editor</b><br/> Rikard has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Cultural Sciences and a specialization in publishing.</p> <p><b>Sonja Brage – Editor</b><br/> Sonja Brage is a former Information Librarian from Lund University Library. She has a B.A. in English, Bulgarian and Russian from Lund University. She is now reviewing journals, primarily in the Slavonic languages and in Italian.</p> <p><b>Lotte Jørgensen – Managing Editor</b><br/> Lotte has during the last 19 years worked as librarian, information consultant, project coordinator and consortia administrator. The positions has been held at The Technical University of Denmark, Swets, Lund University Libraries and The Danish Agency for Culture. Lotte was the DOAJ project coordinator 2004-2008.The common denominator through all positions has been academic journals and scientific publishing.</p> <p><b>Dominic (Dom) Mitchell – Community Manager</b><br/> Dom has worked extensively with the publisher and librarian communities both as a publisher, with the BMJ Publishing Group (UK), and at HighWire Press – Stanford University (USA) where he was an account and project manager. Dom is responsible for collaboration with DOAJ’s publishers.</p> <p><b>Salam Baker Shanawa – IT Development Manager</b><br/> Salam, Director of SemperTool, was in charge of the development and maintenance of DOAJ from 2004-2011. Salam has a vast knowledge of academic libraries and a long experience in creating and integrating digital library products and systems. SemperTool offers a range of reliable and cost-effective software solutions for digital libraries, and serves more than 100 universities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. SemperTool is also developing and maintaining the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://www.doabooks.org/">Directory of Open Access Books</a>.</p> <div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"></div></div> </div> <div id="post-62" class="post-62 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-doaj category-news tag-alma-swan tag-doaj tag-oaspa tag-open-access tag-sparc-europe clearfix"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/18/future-plans-for-the-development-of-the-doaj/" title="Permanent Link to Future plans for the development of the DOAJ" rel="bookmark">Future plans for the development of the DOAJ</a></h2> <p class="entry-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/18/future-plans-for-the-development-of-the-doaj/" title="Permanent Link to Future plans for the development of the DOAJ" rel="bookmark">18 December 2012 08:42</a> / <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/18/future-plans-for-the-development-of-the-doaj/#comments" title="Comment on Future plans for the development of the DOAJ">3 Comments</a> </p> <div class="entry-summary"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/doaj_logo_new.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-75" alt="doaj logo" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241im_/http://is4oa.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/doaj_logo_new.jpg?w=150&h=43" width="150" height="43"/></a><a title="New agreement regarding management of the DOAJ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/new-agreement-regarding-management-of-the-doaj/">As communicated in a previous post</a>, Lund University has facilitated a handover of the responsibility for operating and developing DOAJ to Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA).</p> <p>IS4OA is founded by Dr. Alma Swan (convener of EOS , co-founder and co-owner of Key Perspectives Ltd and Director SPARC Europe ) and Dr. Caroline Sutton (co-founder of Co-Action Publishing and president of OASPA ).</p> <p>Below we will briefly outline the current plans for improvement and development of the DOAJ.</p> <h3>Governance and engaging with the community</h3> <p>First, we want to engage the community in the governance, development and operations of the DOAJ. Our company, IS4OA, is set up as a not-for-profit charitable company limited by guarantee under UK law. Governance of the DOAJ will be through an Advisory Board comprised of key individuals from the open access community. The Advisory Board will provide advice and feedback on the development of the DOAJ. We will as well invite the broader community to contribute input on priorities and directions.</p> <p>Our intention is to develop the DOAJ into a significantly improved service by introducing more functionality and extending the coverage of journals around the world. Included in this will be the task of working more closely with publishers to improve the quality of the information we can deliver about the journals listed.</p> <p>The new organisation has engaged Lars Bjørnshauge to manage DOAJ. Lars founded the DOAJ during his service as Director of Libraries at Lund University. Agreements regarding hosting, technical operation and development as well as staff recruitment are in progress.</p> <h3>Reengineering the editorial work by crowd sourcing</h3> <p>We intend to change the way the editorial process operates. So far, editorial work (reviewing and approving journals) has been centralised; that is, all editorial tasks have been performed by staff located and employed at Lund University. In recent years, a de-centralised model for DOAJ has also been introduced involving agreements with regional/national collaborators (consortia, etc.) where one or more staff carry out the initial reviewing of journals from that country or in that language. This arrangement is already in operation for journals published in France, Turkey and Greece.</p> <p>This model will be extended to further countries and regions. By means of the concept of the “DOAJ associate librarian” the editorial work (inclusion and filtering) and translation of the DOAJ-website into additional languages will essentially be based on a community model (crowd sourced). In this way, the workload at the central hub will decrease and will develop more in the direction of management of the community.</p> <h3>Improved criteria for inclusion in the DOAJ</h3> <p>In communication with the community we will develop improved criteria for inclusion in the DOAJ, for instance by aligning criteria with <a title="OASPA code of conduct" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://oaspa.org/membership/code-of-conduct/" target="_blank">OASPA’s code of conduct</a> and the <a title="open access spectrum" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/howopenisit_open-review.pdf" target="_blank">Open Access Spectrum</a>.</p> <p>We will indeed address the issue of publishers not living up to reasonable standards both in terms of content and of business behavior.</p> <h3>Improvement and development plan</h3> <p>We have followed debates closely and will carry out further community and user consultations to determine what enhancements and improvements should be made to the DOAJ so that it better serves the needs of the whole community (funders, sponsors, supporters, publishers, authors and other users).<br/> Already the information we have gathered has been used to outline an improvement plan. We will engage more systematically with the community as we move forward in order to solicit input to future improvements.</p> <p>Improvements will be in the following areas:</p> <ul> <li>The quality of the records for each journal entry (by working with and assisting publishers);</li> <li>Metadata improvements (journal level and article level);</li> <li>The search interface, harvesting functionality and system;</li> <li>Robust long-term archiving solution;</li> <li>Alt-metrics;</li> <li>A new platform, the transition to which starts in January 2013.</li> </ul> <p>We hope you will welcome this new development and will continue to support DOAJ in 2013 and beyond. We look forward to working with you all in delivering a service committed to continual improvement over the years to come.</p> <p>You can follow the developments at <a title="DOAJ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://www.doaj.org/" target="_blank">www.doaj.org</a> and on Twitter: <a title="doaj twitter" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/https://twitter.com/DOAJplus" target="_blank">@DOAJplus</a></p> <p>For further information <a title="Contact us" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.wordpress.com/contact-us/" target="_blank">contact us</a></p> <div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"></div></div> </div> <div id="post-58" class="post-58 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news tag-doaj tag-lars-bjornshauge clearfix"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/appointment-of-lars-bjornshauge-as-doaj-managing-director/" title="Permanent Link to Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as DOAJ managing director" rel="bookmark">Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as DOAJ managing director</a></h2> <p class="entry-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/appointment-of-lars-bjornshauge-as-doaj-managing-director/" title="Permanent Link to Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as DOAJ managing director" rel="bookmark">17 December 2012 08:29</a> / <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/appointment-of-lars-bjornshauge-as-doaj-managing-director/#respond" title="Comment on Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as DOAJ managing director">Leave a Comment</a> </p> <div class="entry-summary"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/05c203b.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-70" title="Lars Bjørnshauge" alt="Lars Bjørnshauge" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241im_/http://is4oa.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/05c203b.jpg?w=160&h=160" width="160" height="160"/></a>Infrastructure Services For Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as Managing Director of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). During his earlier work as Director of Libraries at Lund University, from 2001 to 2011, Lars led the initial development of the DOAJ and internationally he became known as the face of the directory.</p> <p>As Managing Director Lars is tasked with implementing and further developing the DOAJ in line with a new business plan that has been devised. Agreements regarding hosting and staffing are underway. The DOAJ will be governed through an Advisory Board, the members of which are currently being recruited from a broad spectrum of the Open Access community. Announcements regarding the Advisory Board will be made in the next few weeks along with further plans for development of the DOAJ as well as plans for developing new certification criteria for journal inclusion in the DOAJ.</p> <p>IS4OA and the new DOAJ organization look forward to working with its supporters and the community to further develop the DOAJ such that it can continue to play a key role within the emerging infrastructure to support open access.</p> <p>For more information, <a title="Contact us" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.wordpress.com/contact-us/">contact us</a>.</p> <div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"></div></div> </div> <div id="post-52" class="post-52 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-doaj category-news category-press-release tag-alma-swan tag-caroline-sutton tag-doaj tag-jette-guldborg-petersen tag-lund-university-libraries clearfix"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/new-agreement-regarding-management-of-the-doaj/" title="Permanent Link to New agreement regarding management of the DOAJ" rel="bookmark">New agreement regarding management of the DOAJ</a></h2> <p class="entry-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/new-agreement-regarding-management-of-the-doaj/" title="Permanent Link to New agreement regarding management of the DOAJ" rel="bookmark">17 December 2012 08:25</a> / <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/new-agreement-regarding-management-of-the-doaj/#respond" title="Comment on New agreement regarding management of the DOAJ">Leave a Comment</a> </p> <div class="entry-summary"><p><strong>PRESS RELEASE Mutual communication from Lund University Libraries and IS4OA to the public</strong></p> <div> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/doaj_logo_new.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-75" alt="doaj logo" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241im_/http://is4oa.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/doaj_logo_new.jpg?w=150&h=43" width="150" height="43"/></a><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-76" alt="lund university logo" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241im_/http://is4oa.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/lu_logo_large.gif?w=150&h=95" width="150" height="95"/>Lund University Libraries and Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA – a UK-registered CommunityInterest Company) jointly announce important changes regarding the future operations and development of the DOAJ.</p> <p>The DOAJ was initiated at Lund University, Library Head Office in May 2003. Initially the service was based on project grants but over the years the major share of support was generated from income from the membership programme. Having launched with a list of 300 journals, the DOAJ is now the leading source of Open Access journals, and this month lists more than 8300 journals in all subject areas, published in more than 100 countries in over 50 languages.</p> <p>In response to the growth that the service has experienced in combination with increased demands for further developments, Lund University concluded during 2012 that a new community-based solution for operating and developing the DOAJ had become timely. Following a series of discussions, the University concluded an agreement with Infrastructure Services for Open Access, C.I.C. (IS4OA) according to which the newly formed organisation will manage the trademark as well as assume operations and development of the Directory of Open Access Journals. Further plans will be announced shortly.</p> </div> <p>IS4OA was founded by Dr. Alma Swan (convener of EOS, co-founder and co-owner of Key Perspectives Ltd. and Director SPARC Europe ) and Dr. Caroline Sutton (co-founder Co-Action Publishing and President of OASPA ).</p> <p>Both parties are confident that this transition will ensure that the scholarly community of the future will continue to benefit from a resource that has proven very important for the ongoing changes in the scholarly communication system.</p> <p>Jette Guldborg Petersen, Director of Libraries, Lund University<br/> Caroline Sutton, Director, IS4OA</p> <p>For further information <a title="Contact us" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.wordpress.com/contact-us/">contact us</a></p> <p>Follow developments at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://www.doaj.org/">www.doaj.org</a> or follow us on Twitter <a title="DOAJ plus" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/https://twitter.com/DOAJplus">@doajplus</a></p> <div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled"></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="column column-narrow column-last"> <div id="academica-featured-posts-gallery-3" class="widget clearfix academica-featured-posts-gallery"><h3 class="heading">Latest Posts</h3> <ul class="posts"> <li class="clearfix post"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2013/02/05/doaj-announces-new-team/" title="Permanent Link to DOAJ announces new team" rel="bookmark">DOAJ announces new team</a></h2><p>Today, DOAJ announced on its web site that it has a new team, responsible for taking DOAJ forward from January 2013, under the leadership of…</p> </li> <li class="clearfix post"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/18/future-plans-for-the-development-of-the-doaj/" title="Permanent Link to Future plans for the development of the DOAJ" rel="bookmark">Future plans for the development of the DOAJ</a></h2><p>As communicated in a previous post, Lund University has facilitated a handover of the responsibility for operating and developing DOAJ to Infrastructure Services for Open…</p> </li> <li class="clearfix post"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/appointment-of-lars-bjornshauge-as-doaj-managing-director/" title="Permanent Link to Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as DOAJ managing director" rel="bookmark">Appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as DOAJ managing director</a></h2><p>Infrastructure Services For Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lars Bjørnshauge as Managing Director of the Directory of Open Access…</p> </li> <li class="clearfix post"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://is4oa.org/2012/12/17/new-agreement-regarding-management-of-the-doaj/" title="Permanent Link to New agreement regarding management of the DOAJ" rel="bookmark">New agreement regarding management of the DOAJ</a></h2><p>PRESS RELEASE Mutual communication from Lund University Libraries and IS4OA to the public Lund University Libraries and Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA –…</p> </li> </ul> </div><div id="twitter-3" class="widget clearfix widget_twitter"><h3 class="heading"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/DOAJplus">Tweets from DOAJ</a></h3><ul class="tweets"> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23doaj">#doaj</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23publishersurvey">#publishersurvey</a> shows worrying lack of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23longterm">#longterm</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23preservation">#preservation</a> for journals <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlFw8p9XB3C6dHYwYVp4VzdfU1Ywb2tMdmdVVUxDS3c&usp=sharing"> docs.google.com/spreadsheet/cc…</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpenAccess">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23archiving">#archiving</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/DOAJplus/statuses/364639869202477056" class="timesince">1 hour ago</a> </li> <li> Update: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23DOAJ">#DOAJ</a> contains 9948 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23journals">#journals</a>, 5100 searchable at article level, from 120 countries: 1160111 articles. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23openaccess">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23doaj">#doaj</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23oa">#oa</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/DOAJplus/statuses/364366376900636672" class="timesince">19 hours ago</a> </li> <li> Data breakdown by country <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlFw8p9XB3C6dHZwNGlYeXhrSVk3cjEyTTcteVZsQmc&usp=sharing"> docs.google.com/spreadsheet/cc…</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23doaj">#doaj</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23publishersurvey">#publishersurvey</a> - only 35% <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23publishers">#publishers</a> assign <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23doi">#doi</a> to content <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpenAccess">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/DOAJplus/statuses/364357030363938817" class="timesince">19 hours ago</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23doaj">#doaj</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23publishersurvey">#publishersurvey</a> - only 35% <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23publishers">#publishers</a> assign <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23doi">#doi</a> to content <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlFw8p9XB3C6dHR4Z0ZjcmZoUWM5WElEbU1zTXVCaEE&usp=sharing"> docs.google.com/spreadsheet/cc…</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpenAccess">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23oa">#oa</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/DOAJplus/statuses/364301914281750528" class="timesince">23 hours ago</a> </li> <li> RT @<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/SPARC_EU">SPARC_EU</a>: About 2000 more <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130806075241/http://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpenAccess">#OpenAccess</a> journals since last year. 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