[Open-access] crowdsourcing platform for academic journals

Mon May 20 11:06:12 UTC 2013

Dear all,

publishers owning DOI prefixes registered with CrossRef are listed at
http://www.crossref.org/06members/50go-live.html .

I am not aware of a similar listing for prefixes registered elsewhere.

Cheers,

Daniel

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Cameron Neylon <cn at cameronneylon.net> wrote:
>
>> Do you know how to get DOI range?
>
>
> I'm afraid I don't, but maybe someone on these lists does?
>
>
> Not sure if someone else answered this but technically speaking the idea of
> a DOI range doesn't really exist. Certain prefixes are granted to publishers
> but the DOIs are attached to papers, not publishers, thus if a journal moves
> publishers then the DOIs go with it. Similarly (although I don't think this
> has happened in practice) a publisher might get a new prefix.
>
> On top of this there is no requirement for consistency of presentation for
> the DOI suffix, so the idea of a range which can be traversed by counting
> through is misleading. For instance BMC DOIs appear to made up of the BMC
> prefix (10.1186) the journal ISSN and the volume and "page number". You
> can't count through these. And of course BMC is owned by Springer so who is
> the "publisher" in this case?
>
> At the end of the day the DOI prefix can tell you with some confidence which
> publisher minted the DOI associated with a given paper. CrossRef explicitly
> say that this can't be relied on - for some of the reasons given above - but
> I've not come across major problems assuming this.
>
> Unfortunately the one thing you can't do, which is what would be useful, is
> to get a full list of DOIs for a given publisher. You can do it per journal
> if you query search.crossref.org with an ISSN
>
> Cheers
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
>
>>
>> > 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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