Dear Librarians,

Thank you so much for Diane Arnold feedback.

Having response from a number of people Neurobiology of Lipids now provides a DOAJ article search box as a part of the journal home page. To save space, however, NoL home page accomodates a basic DOAJ search form. There is a short explanation page under the link 'what is this?" that links to a standard DOAJ search form for those willing to perform a custom search.

Take a look on how it looks like at NoL home page <http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html> (below 'recent content')

Surely the DOAJ form html coding can be changed to fit any library/journal page style/space/color palette.

So, why not consider adding DOAJ article search box at your web pages, and thus let your users seamlessly search the OA articles collection at DOAJ.

Sincerely,

Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
editor
Neurobiology of Lipids
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html>

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At 11:00 AM 7/1/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes, very well done, but unfortunately many people have pop-up blockers and will never see this. I wonder if a "spash-page" might be better, which would contain the same information and a button to "continue to" the journal's web page.
>
>Diane
>
>Diane Arnold
>Serials Librarian
>Logue Library
>Chestnut Hill College
>9601 Germantown Ave.
>Philadelphia, PA 19118
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>        -----Original Message-----
>        From: Natalia Koudinova [mailto:nataliakoudinova@NEUROBIOLOGYOFLIPIDS.ORG]
>        Sent: Wed 6/30/2004 6:36 PM
>        To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>        Cc:
>        Subject: [SERIALST] A way to promote Open Access
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>        Of possible interest:
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>        Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 01:23:47 +0300
>        From: Alexei Koudinov <sparcoaforum@neurobiologyoflipids.org>
>        Subject: [SOAF] A way to promote Open Access
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>        Dear Librarian,
>
>        I thought that you could find interesting that Neurobiology of Lipids (ISSN 1683-5506) home introduced a pop-up easy-to-close window with a short message and a form to search DOAJ articles at two most visited journal pages.
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>        Click on one or another links and see the result:
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>        NoL Home page:
>        <http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html>
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>        or
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>        NoL Noteworthy articles page:
>        <http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/noteworthy/noteworthy2004.html>
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>        When a query is submitted, a reader is brought to DOAJ search result page and will hopefully explore the DOAJ further.
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>        The page coding is available upon request to those willing to make DOAJ search a part of their web resources. The setup will take minutes, and the form can be provided as a part of existing library web page, perhaps at eJournal resources. It can be customized to any size and layout to fit the hosting page style.
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>        In my view, once readily available at a library web page such form could stimulate faculty and students to search DOAJ directory for articles and, perhaps, journals to consider publishing at, and thus serve an efficient way to promote OA.
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>
>
>        Sincerely,
>
>        Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
>        neuroscientist and editor
>        Neurobiology of Lipids
>        <http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html>
>