The quarterly update to the DOAJ Guide of Applying is introduced by Head of Editorial Matt Hodgkinson, clarifying the wording on flipped journals, adding best practices for AI tools, formalising our quality criteria, and allowing for some limited exceptions to OA. As we announced in July, all updates to our guide to applying are being…
In this blog post, Kamel Belhamel, DOAJ Managing Editor and Ambassador for North Africa and the Middle East, highlights both the progress and challenges of open access journals in North Africa and outlines a roadmap for improvement. The North African region has made important strides in expanding access to scholarly research through Open Access (OA)…
At DOAJ, we are dedicated to upholding trust in scholarly publishing by ensuring that questionable journals are not included in our directory. Our quality team is central to this effort, conducting in-depth investigations into cases of concern. In 2024 alone, the team dedicated more than 830 hours on over 470 investigations. In this second post,…
At DOAJ, we are dedicated to upholding trust in scholarly publishing by ensuring that questionable journals are not included in our directory. Our quality team is central to this effort, conducting in-depth investigations into cases of concern. In 2024 alone, the team dedicated more than 830 hours on over 470 investigations. Our Deputy Head of…
You might have wondered how many people are behind the scenes at DOAJ and what they do. This blog post series will offer our community an opportunity to meet several of our team members and learn more about their roles and responsibilities. In this blog post, we will meet Judith Barnsby, Head of Editorial and…
A recently published article on a comparison of blacklists and whitelists draws the conclusion that “In the DOAJ, more criteria relate to transparency of business and publishing practices rather than to the quality of peer review. This indicates a risk of falsely endorsing the legitimacy of a journal based on its transparent nature, while at…
This invitation is for Scholarly Journal Editors/Publishers/Librarians/Other, in the southern and eastern African regions, to attend a webinar on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). About DOAJ The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden – is a centrally, publicly and internationally available community-curated list of high…
Since 2012, DOAJ has been on a path of data quality improvement. DOAJ metadata is used all over the world and all over the Web. Improving and fixing the quality of our metadata can be painstaking work but the effort goes a long way as changes propagate across the Web via search engines, aggregator databases,…
Research4Life and DOAJ announce a working partnership that will help to ensure that the users of Research4Life will have access to the largest possible array of open access journals from publishers following a quality standard. The partnership will also help reinforce the importance of peer reviewed open access material. The partnership reinforces the work that…
DOAJ’s managing director, Lars Bjørnshauge, has been interviewed by SPARC about DOAJ’s enhanced application form and raising the quality bar in open access publishing. The post, published today, highlights how effectively the new form is providing a much-needed filter against questionable, unethical and non-transparent publishing practices. Combined with OASPA’s efforts, the form is an important…
