Pearl : A Journal of Library and Information Science

  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 1

Directory of open access journals (DOAJ) and its application in academic libraries

  • Author:
  • Ravindra Sopan Bankar1,*, Shalini Ramdas Lihitkar2, Narendra Singh Rohila3
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 47 to 56

1Librarian, Anand Niketan College of Agriculture, Warora-442907, Maharashtra, India

2Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur-440033, Maharashtra, India

3Senior Technical Officer, National Library in Dairying, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal-132001, Haryana, India

Abstract

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and makes open access, peer-reviewed journals available to the public. The Directory of Open Access Journals contains a wide range of journals in the fields of science, agriculture, social science, and other multidisciplinary areas. The study focuses on how librarians may utilize the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to redistribute high-quality open-access journals to their patrons by integrating and linking these journals to Web-portals that cater to their academic and research needs.

Keywords

Open access resources, Open educational resources, Directory of open access journals, Information dissemination, Open access regime, Academic libraries, Etc