Open J-Gate was a free
database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...
of
open access journal
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
s, launched in February 2006, and hosted by Informatics Ltd. of India.
Informatics started
metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
* Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
aggregation from open access journals as part of the development of
J-Gate
J-Gate is a bibliographic database to access global e-journal literature. As a discovery platform for the research community, it is presented as a website under subscription-based access to a large database of scientific research. It contains ab ...
. Open J-Gate claimed to aggregate metadata from more than 4,000 open access journals published in the
English language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the is ...
around the globe. Open J-Gate indexed articles from available
e-journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...
s in the open access domain, both from the scholarly and popular domains. It indexed
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
and non-peer reviewed
professional magazine A professional magazine or professional journal is a periodical published by the governing body of a profession."Professional Magazines or Journals" iProfessional/Trade Journals Piedmont College, Library. The standard of quality of such a periodical ...
s, as well as
trade
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market.
An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...
and industry journals.
See also
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List of open-access journals
This is a list of open-access journals by field. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing ser ...
References
Issues In Scholarly Communication: News for the University of Illinois Community(March 1, 2006). Retrieved 5.09.2017.
United Kingdom Serials Special Interest Group description of Open J-Gate
Volume 13, Issue 2; August 2006. Editor: Jonathan M Goodman. Retrieved 25.09.2017.
External links
J-Gate
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Open-access archives
Publications established in 2006
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