The goal of this phase in the DOAJ development is to offer a searchable index of the full text articles from journals in the directory. The work started in September 2003 and the new service will be launched during spring 2004.

We believe that such an index will further increase the exposure of the wealth of information available in Open Access journals. The index will also be made available for harvesting by OAI service providers and through those a wider dissemination will be possible.

Since a majority of the journals do not have any structured metadata available we will harvest the full text and use that for searching. The search service will be available in mid-May 2004.

Improved data. We will offer journal administrators a possibility to add structured article metadata to DOAJ to enhance the search functionalities. This service will be available in mid-February 2004.