... The purpose of this study is to focus on the business and management field and assess the extent to which scholarly open access journals in this discipline are currently being indexed by both commercial and non-commercial indexing services. ...
For this study, the sample of scholarly open access journals selected are those 83 business and management journals listed in DOAJ in May, 2009. ...
With the larger, mainstream commercial databases, Ebsco’s Business Source Complete is the only one that indexes a significant number of the DOAJ sample. It indexes 27 of the journals (33%), most of which have been added in the last few years. ...
ABI/Inform and IBSS index 11% of the DOAJ open access business titles, Scopus 10%, and Wilson Business Periodicals Index only 2%. ...
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has article level indexing of 36 of the 83 journals ...
Google Scholar is the best-known, free database for finding journal articles. It is also the most comprehensive source for retrieving articles from open source journals. Of the DOAJ sample, only 6% were not included, an estimated 16% were indexed selectively, and an estimated 78% were indexed comprehensively.
Open J-Gate (Informatics India) is the largest directory of open access journal titles and has extensive article-level indexing. It currently indexes 51 (61%) of the sample business OA titles from DOAJ. ...
In order to increase the visibility and reputation of open access journals, OA publishers can use OAI-PMH so that OA indexing services such as Open J-Gate and DOAJ can include their articles. They can also work with Google Scholar to ensure that its web crawler can identify and harvest their articles. On the commercial indexing front, they need to more actively promote their journal titles to database providers and their journal selection committees. For non-English language journals, publishers might want to consider having parallel English language titles and English language abstracts. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 12/09/2009 01:58:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
