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Indexing Open Access Law Journals…or Maybe Not
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2019
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At the 2007 Charleston Conference, Elaine Yontz and Jack Fisher, library science professor and librarian respectively at Valdosta State University, gave a presentation on their study of indexing by the leading information science indexers of the seventy-eight open access journals (OAJ) listed for library and information science in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). They discovered that less than 47% of the journals listed in the DOAJ were indexed. Additional observations made were the relative newness of many of the library science journal titles listed in DOAJ, the breadth of languages in which OAJ were being published, and the quality of many of the publishers or groups behind the journals. Yontz and Fisher are concerned that American scholars overlook these potentially helpful journals because of the lack of indexing.
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2 Yontz, Elaine and Fisher, Jack, “Are They Being Indexed? Tracking the Indexing and Abstracting of Open Access Journals, Charleston Conference Proceedings 2007, 126–130.Google Scholar
3 Ibid.Google Scholar
4 Bell, Katherine “The Indexing of Scholarly Open Access Business Journals,” 10 Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (2009). See also Nowick, E. A., Jenda, C. A., & Azzam, J., “Indexing of Open Access Journals in Agriculture,” 49 IAALD Quarterly Bulletin 20 (2004).Google Scholar
5 Id, 4.Google Scholar
6 Ibid.Google Scholar
7 The directory can be found at http://www.doaj.org.Google Scholar
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