We are excited to announce that DOAJ is moving to become a new legal entity, the DOAJ Foundation, a Danish nonprofit foundation. We will gradually transfer DOAJ’s operations over the coming months from our current host, Infrastructure Services for Open Access, to the new foundation. The move will secure DOAJ’s sustainability by providing more robust community governance and simplifying our organisation, meaning we can focus on our core mission.
To govern this new organisation, we have established a new DOAJ Foundation Board, made up of community members representing the diversity of DOAJ’s stakeholder groups. The Foundation Board will be supplemented by a new Advisory Board reflecting the breadth of DOAJ’s community: librarians, publishers, researchers, data users and research funders from all parts of the world. We will very shortly be putting out a call for nominations.
DOAJ will continue to operate as usual during this transition. There will be no disruption to our services or team, and we will continue to provide the same high-quality content and services to our users.
DOAJ’s former home, Infrastructure Services for Open Access, a UK CIC, will continue to run until the transition of operations is complete.
We are excited to begin this new chapter in DOAJ’s history and are confident that this change will strengthen DOAJ and ensure its continued success for many years.
A really good initiaive
good wishes