[okfn-labs] crowdsourcing platform for academic journals

Thu May 16 16:39:22 UTC 2013

Hi Ross,

I asked about existing platforms in OKFN before in the mail list
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2013-May/000828.html and I
think crowdcrafting.org was designed for general use cases.

Drupal is my main field and it's really flexible. So I can add
features fast to make it easy to CRUD single content and bulk
import/export data (even a quick API:
http://shenzhuxi.com/api/journal?issn=1619-4500).

Liang

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > 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?
>
>
> I'm afraid I don't, but maybe someone on these lists does?
>
>
>>
>> > 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?
>
>
> Possibly.
>
> I have a gist of 1176 CC BY licensed OA journals and their ISSN's here. No
> RSS feeds for them though: https://gist.github.com/rossmounce/5083733
>
> Have you thought about using Crowdcrafting to get people to add details,
> rather than drupal?
> e.g. something like this: http://crowdcrafting.org/app/oajournals/
> It might be prettier...
>
>
>>
>> I just added OA or not field,
>
>
> Cool. I hope you're using the BOAI definition of OA? A lot of journals
> online are just 'free access' rather than explicitly open access I'm afraid,
> and it's tricky to work out which is which. I suggest you change that field
> to 'free access' (Y/N) to reduce complexity.
>
>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 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
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