It’s our birthday! Today marks 20 years since the Directory of Open Access Journals started our two-decade journey – building and maintaining trust in quality open access journals – a mission that is as relevant now as it was then. DOAJ was launched in the wake of the Budapest Open Access Initiative of 2002, with…
September 15, 2022 – Revised Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing have been released by four key scholarly publishing organizations today. These guiding principles are intended as a foundation for best practice in scholarly publishing to help existing and new journals reach the best possible standards. The fourth edition of the Principles…
Open access has become more important than ever – last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, greater numbers of people turned to online information sources. With universities and libraries closed and scholars working from home, at DOAJ, we saw an increase of almost half a million individual users to the DOAJ website in 2020 –…
We are rewriting our website in plain English so that it is easy for our users, especially publishers, to understand what is required for a good quality and complete application. These are first steps to us: becoming even more open and transparent; offering a greatly improved user experience for a new application form; starting a…
This is a guest post by Souheil Houissa, editor of the North Africa & Middle East (NAME) group, and long-serving DOAJ volunteer. He wrote the article in February 2020 so the statistics are historical. (As of today, the group has processed 536 applications.) However, the general conclusions drawn throughout the article are still valid. Journal…
DOAJ receives regularly questions and, sometimes, complaints from libraries, library consortia and other academic institutions about the role which publishers—by “publishers” I mean the traditional publishing organisations in academic publishing—play in DOAJ. A common misconception is that DOAJ is owned by, or wholly subsidised by these organisations and that DOAJ is only of benefit to…
The 3rd version of the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing is published today. Introduction The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in…
Are you involved in running or supporting a DFG-funded Diamond OA journal or another Diamond OA journal in Germany that is not (yet) indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)? As part of our collaboration with the German Research Foundation (DFG) we want to understand challenges for no fee journals from Germany in applying…
Open Access (OA) publishing has become a feature of Asia’s scholarly landscape. The recent DOAJ Open Access in Asia webinar, organised by Senior Ambassador Vrushali Dandawate, highlighted the increase in journal applications, the rise of Diamond OA, and the vital role of community engagement across Asia. OA publishing is now a prominent feature of the…
Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s open access landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges. Ramazan also proposes actionable recommendations to enhance sustainability and international visibility. Türkiye’s OA landscape Although there is no single, complete registry of open access (OA) journals in Türkiye, the DIAMAS Türkiye Country…
