Dear recipient, We have started a study to look at a subset of Open Access scholarly journal publishing, which we feel has been overlooked in much of the published research, namely OA journals published in other languages than English. We include both newly started electronic only OA journals, as well as older print journals that have started to make the e-version free. The vast majority of these probably don?t charge authors. There are a number of reasons there have been few results about the overall extent of such publishing etc. One is that many leading researchers come from countries where English is the main language, and many studies have from the start been restricted to such only journals publishing in English, in order to facilitate the gathering of data. Another is that non-English journals are likely to be underrepresented in all the available indexes, including the DOAJ.
We have so far indentified two easy ways to find information about such journals. The first is using DOAJ and its search facilities. The second one is using the OA journal portals we are aware of, such as Scielo, J-stage, doiSerbia etc. In addition to this there are many countries, which don?t have such portals and we would like also to get information from those. For this purpose we try to contact experts who we believe have good knowledge of the situation in their countries and could provide us links to list of all reputable scholarly journals in their country, lists of OA journals etc. Countries which interest us in particular are: Canada, Most European countries (except the UK) and including Russia, Francophone countries in Africa, Middle East and Asian Countries. We will use three ways to contact volunteers who can help us: Contact with the management of DOAJ and its voluntary editorial staff An email to The Global Open Access List (GOAL) Direct e-mail to people we know If you feel you are in a position to provide us information, please contact us by e-mail Cenyu Shen, Ph.D. Student Principal researcher cenyu.s...@hanken.fi Bo-Christer Björk, Professor bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi Mikael Laakso, Assistant Professor mikael.laa...@hanken.fi Information Systems Science Dept. of Management and Organisation Hanken School of Economics P.O. Box 479, 00101 Helsinki, Finland _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal