New agreement regarding management of DOAJ

Abstract

A new agreement has been concluded regarding management of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – This has been confirmed by a Mutual communication from Lund University Libraries and IS4OA to the public . Quoting the Press release:

“17 December 2012: Lund University Libraries and Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA - a UK-registered Community Interest Company) jointly announce important changes regarding the future operations and development of the DOAJ. 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 8 300 journals in all subject areas, published in more than 100 countries in over 50 languages. / - - / 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 ).”

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