[okfn-labs] crowdsourcing platform for academic journals

Thu May 16 14:44:18 UTC 2013

Hi Ross

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Liang,
>
>
> This is really cool. Thanks for sharing it with us.
>
> I'm copying your message across the to open-science and open-access mailing
> lists because I think they might also be interested in this.

Thanks.

>
> I'd like to see the Publisher details added, as well as DOI range (hard!).
Should we put Publisher details in the description?
Do you know how to get DOI range?

> There's a whole load of OA journals & their RSS feeds we could add from DOAJ
> with a bit of data munging I think.

Can we do it automatically?
I just added OA or not field,

>
> Very promising...
>
> Ross
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: SHEN Liang <shenzhuxi at gmail.com>
> Date: 14 May 2013 16:42
> Subject: [okfn-labs] crowdsourcing platform for academic journals
> To: okfn-labs <okfn-labs at lists.okfn.org>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjfpjwzLd5bUdEY5MF9KUmROaW1WZklOYmoweEtZakE&usp=sharing
> is a list of 14266 journals' feed from http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/
> several years ago and they've stopped releasing it.
>
> I think it will be very useful to have a crowdsourcing platform like
> wikipedia for academic journals, so I imported this list into Drupal.
> http://shenzhuxi.com/journals is a quick prototype and I'd like to
> hear more suggestions.
>
> wikijournal.org seems to be the best domain name but it's not available.
>
> More fields like website url, impact factor (not sure about the
> copyright), publication frequency, Open Access, RSS/ATOM and etc. will
> be good to be added and maintained by the community.
>
> Also It will be nice to dump all the journal feed items from Google
> Reader (https://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI) and
> collect regularly in the future. Since Google Reader will be closed
> soon, I talked about the historical data with JournalTOCs
> https://twitter.com/JournalTOCs/status/312180502184476672, but they
> don't have.
>
> Liang