Directory of Open Access Journals in Keywords : Distribution and Themes of Articles

Researchers depend on consultation with previous work in their field, most of which is published in scientific journals. The open access movement has affected journals and articles, providing new alternatives for accessing scientific content, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the m...

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Published in:JLIS.it : Italian journal of library and information science 2020-09, Vol.11 (3), p.110-121
Main Authors: Schwarz Rodrigues, Rosangela, Kricheldorf Hermes de Araújo, Breno, Sabino dos Santos, Laura Lavinia, Campos Brizola, Ana Lidia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Directories
Information science
Libraries
Library and information science
Open access journals
Open access publishing
Open access
DOAJ
Research on open access
Scientific Communication
Scholarly journals
Philosophy
Social aspects
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Summary:Researchers depend on consultation with previous work in their field, most of which is published in scientific journals. The open access movement has affected journals and articles, providing new alternatives for accessing scientific content, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the most specialized and multidisciplinary database of open access journals. The main goal of this study is to analyze publications that include "DOAJ" in their keywords, to determine how researchers in the areas of Library and Information Science and Social Science are studying it. The specific objectives are: a) to describe the characteristics of journals indexed in the Web of Science, DOAJ, or SCOPUS that have published articles with "DOAJ" as a keyword; b) to identify the institutional affiliations of the authors of those articles; and c) to classify the articles according to subject area. We identified 39 articles from 29 journals. The countries with the largest numbers of journals are the United States and theMost of the journals were open access, of which universities were the biggest publishers. The countries with the largest numbers of authors were India (12), and Italy and Russia (11 each), and the journal that published the most articles was the University of Nebraska's Library Philosophy and Practice (four articles). Most articles analyze the quality (65.5%), followed by the growth (25.6%), of the Open Access Movement. An analysis of the subject areas covered revealed significant gaps, as the economic, legal and technological aspects of DOAJ were not represented. [Publisher's text]
ISSN:2038-1026
2038-5366
2038-1026
DOI:10.4403/jlis.it-12630