[open-humanities] OA Journal aggregation: further thoughts

[John Levin]

On 30/08/2011 21:10, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> Sounds like an ideal usage for a profile of RSS.
>
> cheers
> stuart
>

I've done a little spot-checking, namely looking at five english 
language journals on this page:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=13&uiLanguage=en
and *none* of them have rss. Open Journal Systems - which appears to be 
quite widely used - has an optional rss module, but not one that is 
implemented so often.

Shame, because rss is very useful.

John



> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:16 AM, John Levin<john at anterotesis.com>  wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm writing to see if what interest and support there is for developing some
>> sort of OA humanities journal aggregation system, as I sketched in my email
>> earlier this month:
>> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-humanities/2011-August/000111.html
>>
>> As listed on the okf ideas incubator:
>> http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/198/website-for-finding-and-searching-oa-humanities-journals
>>
>> The basic problem is that there are many open access journals, and so also
>> many websites. There isn't a single interface for searching them. One must
>> also be aware of each individual journal, a mind-stretching task given how
>> many there are.
>> (The DOAJ lists nearly 7,000 at the time of writing: http://www.doaj.org/ )
>>
>> To solve this, I propose some sort of aggregation website, that lists and
>> makes searchable not just the journals' details, as DOAJ does, but also
>> their contents. It won't actually publish articles, but make pre-existing
>> materials discoverable through indexing.
>>
>> (My particular interest is in OA *humanities*, esp. history journals. There
>> seem to be a lot of these around. But there's no reason why something
>> similar shouldn't be built for OA science journals, if that's neccessary.)
>>
>> So, some questions:
>>
>> 1: Does anyone know of any similar sort of project (in any field)? Something
>> that can be used as an example, perhaps that has built or repurposed some
>> software?
>>
>> 2: Can OKFN offer support in any way - perhaps server space?
>>
>> 3: Is this just some sort of glorified search engine?
>>
>> 4: Is anyone out there interested and prepared (however tentatively) to work
>> on it?
>>
>> 5: What next?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> john
>>
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