OA journal article searching [was RE: Free and/or OA journals in librarianship]

[Eric Lease Morgan]

On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:58 PM, web4lib at webjunction.org wrote:

> DOAJ provides an article level search 
> <http://www.doaj.org/findarticles>
> from 320 OA journals <http://www.doaj.org/jorart>.  A quick glance at
> the participating journals list confirmed my initial suspicion.  The
> participating journals are primarily from SciELO <http://scielo.org> 
> and
> BioMed Central <http://biomedcentral.com>, which offer cross-journal
> article searching within their own platforms.  I'm confident that 
> SciELO
> and BioMed Central are leveraging OAI-MHP to provide their internal
> search services, making participation in the DOAJ article search much
> easier.

I created a full-text index to a sub-set of the DOAJ. I tried to index 
things at the article level, but the meta-data was very poor. See:

   http://dewey.library.nd.edu/morgan/doaji/?cmd=about

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame