Difference between revisions of "Code4Lib Journal Entries in Directory of Open Access Journals"

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For now we are entering article metadata into DOAJ by hand. This will eventually put us in OAISter, as well as DOAJ's own article-level search function, injecting our articles into the wider findable world.
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There are two ways to get metadata into the Directory of Open Access Journals: 1) by hand, or 2) through the use of an XML file. Before you do either method, please keep in mind  the following things:
  
Some metadata peculariaties of ours that come up when entering data:
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  1 We chose not to have volume numbers, just issue numbers. Issue numbers will just keep incrementing.
  
1) We chose not to have volume numbers, just issue numbers. Issue
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  2 We decided that the "record number" for an article is the article-id that shows up in the WordPress URI. That is, they are not sequential, numbers are skipped. That's fine. So there is no 'start page', but there is a 'record number'; there is no 'end page'.
numbers will just keep incrementing.
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2) We decided that the "record number" for an article is the article-id
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  3 Enter the abstract and authors affiliation exactly as found in our published articles.
that shows up in the WordPress URI. That is, they are not sequential,
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numbers are skipped. That's fine. So there is no 'start page', but there
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is a 'record number'; there is no 'end page'.
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3) Enter the abstract and authors affiliation exactly as found
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  4 Enter keywords if there are any. If not, leave this blank
in our published articles.
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4) Enter keywords if there are any. If not, leave this blank
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Revision as of 17:35, 28 May 2008

There are two ways to get metadata into the Directory of Open Access Journals: 1) by hand, or 2) through the use of an XML file. Before you do either method, please keep in mind the following things:

 1 We chose not to have volume numbers, just issue numbers. Issue numbers will just keep incrementing.
 2 We decided that the "record number" for an article is the article-id that shows up in the WordPress URI. That is, they are not sequential, numbers are skipped. That's fine. So there is no 'start page', but there is a 'record number'; there is no 'end page'.
 3 Enter the abstract and authors affiliation exactly as found in our published articles.
 4 Enter keywords if there are any. If not, leave this blank