Featured Online Resource, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

This week’s Featured Online Resource is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The DOAJ states on its website that its aim is to “increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.” The journals included in the DOAJ must be peer-reviewed or have some other quality control. It also includes journals that report results of research and covers all subject areas. The DOAJ contains 7540 journals from 117 different countries around the world for a total of over 764,000 articles.

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Featured Online Resource, November 21

This week’s Featured Online Resource is New York Public Library’s (NYPL) Digital Gallery. The Digital Gallery provides open access to over 700,000 images that have been digitized from the collections of the NYPL. These include but are not limited to manuscripts, historical maps, vintage poster, and photographs. You can browse by subjects including Arts & Literature, Culture & Society, History & Geography, and Nature & Science.

For example, under History & Geography is a collection of Early Landscape Photography of the American West with prints from the 1860s and 1870s. Under Arts & Literature, you can find a collection of over 1800 Vintage Holiday Postcards, covering holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day.