Two URLs have been brought to our attention which I wanted to alert the community to. The first, doaj.co, has been made to look just like DOAJ and the second, doaj.net, has been set up to look like a journal. Please be extremely wary of both of these URLs. Neither of these sites are related to DOAJ or are sanctioned by DOAJ in any way.
doaj.co is clearly a bad screen scrape of our site. At the time of writing, it has no functionality whatsoever. We have made contact with the site owner but have received no response.
doaj.net purports to be a journal. DOAJ does not publish journal content and has no connection whatsoever with the company, Modern European Researches(!), which claims to be behind doaj.net.
It has become almost standard practice when registering a URL to buy up all of the alternatives or variants. This is a costly process (and extremely lucrative for some!) and something for which DOAJ doesn’t have the funds. The best we can do is monitor what variants on our URL are up to and alert our community to anything suspicious.
If you spot any other doaj URL variants then do please let us know by leaving a comment below.
Dom Mitchell
Operations Manager
Have you reported this to Google? They may be able to filter out these sites from search results.
No, Adam, I haven’t. I shall do that. Thanks for the great tip! Best, Dom
Hi https://doaj.kr/ hosts the ‘Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions’, although your browser may prevent you from accessing the site, due to an invalid security certificate.
Thanks John! That journal is indexed in DOAJ with a different URL. I have reached out to our Korean Ambassadors to see if they can help me understand what is going on. Thank you so much for your input. Best, Dom