Scholarly Communication : Open Access : DOAJ update. Sara Kjellberg has sent out an update on the Lund Directory of Open Access Journals. The DOAJ now allows anyone to download all the directory records in comma-separated format. It also allows any OAI-compliant data service to harvest the directory metadata. The directory now offers a useful list of all its titles and has started work on Phase 2 of its construction, in which it will offer full-text searching of articles, not just searching of information about participating journals. [Open Access News] 12:28:15 PM  [Feedback ]  

Scholarly Communication : More on the Elsevier boycott and cancellations. Jennifer Murphy, Library struggles to fund access, Daily Bruin, November 17, 2003. Excerpt: "It costs the [University of California] millions of dollars a year – about 50 percent of the UC's online materials budget – to access the journals published by Elsevier, which provides access to over 1,100 online journals. But the cost of Elsevier journals does not match their use, said Biomedical Reference Librarian Janice Contini. Elsevier journals only comprise about a quarter of UC systemwide online journal usage, Cortini said." (Thanks to LIS News.) [Open Access News] 9:38:39 AM  [Feedback ]