[Open-access] crowdsourcing platform for academic journals

[Ross Mounce]

> >
> > 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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