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Friday, November 07, 2008

DOAJ launches RSS feed of recent additions

The Directory of Open Access Journals has updated its new titles page, adding RSS feeds of recent additions to the directory. The feature was added on October 22, 2008. Feeds are available for journals added in the last 24 hours, last 7 days, or last 30 days.

See also our past post on DOAJ's revamp of the new titles page earlier this year, or all past posts on the DOAJ.

Comment. This should come in handy for a number of uses; thanks again to DOAJ. Two suggestions:

  • A feed of the most recent additions in reverse chronological order (limited, say, at the last 20 additions, rather than the last 1/7/30 days, which are in alphabetical order by journal title)
  • Putting the date added in the feed item title, and putting journal information in the feed item body (presently, the item title is only the journal's title, and the body is empty)