Interview with Xiaotian Chen, Electronic Services Librarian / Associate Professor at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA and Editor at DOAJ. When did you start volunteering for DOAJ? I started as the editor of DOAJ’s Chinese Group in 2014, working with a couple of associate editors. In January 2018, I became the editor of the newly created…
DOAJ has approximately 100 volunteers carrying out important reviewing work for it. These volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds within academia, journal publishing or from libraries. DOAJ relies on these volunteers to keep applications flowing through the system. In the first of a new series, we are highlighting our volunteers’ skills and interests which…
This is a guest post by Ina Smith, our Ambassador for Southern Africa. Ina managed the pilot for the African Open Science Platform project from October 2016 until October 2019. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in Computer-Integrated Education, a Higher Education Teaching Diploma, and two degrees (BBibl and…
This is a guest post by Richard Jones, founding partner of Cottage Labs and member of the DOAJ team. Cottage Labs has hosted, developed and managed the DOAJ platform since December 2013 and is responsible for keeping DOAJ available to the vast number of individuals using DOAJ every day. To the public, it may seem…
This is a guest blog post by Mikael Laakso. About the author Mikael Laakso works as an Associate Professor (tenure track) in Information Studies at Tampere University, Finland where he specializes in scholarly communication and open science. Since 2009 he has been researching the changing landscape towards openness in scholarly publishing by studying combinations of…
We have listened to and consulted with the community and, as a result, we have removed a restriction in order to avoid unjustly penalising reputable journals. In November 2023, we announced new criteria for inclusion in DOAJ relating to the publication of special issues. We were pleased that community feedback on the new criteria was…
There has been a proliferation of special issues recently. DOAJ is responding to concerns from the community by adding new criteria to its Basic criteria. After today, all new applications submitted must comply with them. We work hard to ensure we only include trustworthy journals in the directory. We have responded to concerns around the…
This is a guest post from Bernie Folan, Communications, Engagement and Outreach Manager at OASPA. The OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) annual conference takes place online between 20-22 September 2023. We have an excellent program and look forward to welcoming participants from around the world. Please join us and bring your questions and points…
This is a guest post by Ikhwan Arief, one of DOAJ’s Ambassadors in Indonesia and a faculty member of the Industrial Engineering Department at Universitas Andalas. Ikhwan has been using DOAJ’s metadata for some time to create data visualizations as a tool for the growing community of Indonesian journal editors and publishers. We think they…
DOAJ indexes a diverse range of high-quality open access journals, and often more from under-represented regions than other indexes. Tom Olyhoek, Editor-in-Chief, takes a fresh look at the data and tells us how this data is helping to develop DOAJ’s Ambassador program. In 2019, we published a study showing that DOAJ listed the largest number…
