The CONSER Open Access Journal Project: tagging the serials on the Open (Access) range

Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress (USA), member of IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section), reports on the CONSER Open Access Journal Project. This project cooperatively targets the DOAJ to assure that CONSER records are available for all journals in the DOAJ. It is designed to provide on-going coverage of new titles added to DOAJ. These CONSER records are in turn used by electronic resource management and access systems to track e-journal collections such as DOAJ and other e-journal collections. Ensuring accurate ISSN data is distributed for more consistent accessibility, and providing a consistent set of titles and metadata across different user information environments are among the benefits of this initiative.