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…
This year, DOAJ is 20 years old, and we are hosting three events to celebrate voices from our community on the themes Open, Global and Trusted. Our first event, on the theme Open, will be on 15th June. Due to our global audience, we have looked at ways we can make our events this year…
We are delighted to invite you to the first of three online events we’re holding this year to mark DOAJ’s twentieth anniversary. Date and time: Thursday 15th June 2023 at 13:00 UTC. [Event time where you are.] Registration and more details Registration is open right up until the event About the event This event is built…
This is a guest post from Bernie Folan, the Communications, Engagement and Outreach Manager for OASPA. The OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) annual conference takes place online from 20-22 September. There is an excellent program and, as with previous years, attendees can look forward to meeting participants from around the world. You can register…
This is a guest post by our colleagues at J-STAGE, Japan. We are working with them to encourage the open access journals on their platform to submit applications to be indexed. Along the lines of previous projects with groups in Finland, Canada, and Denmark, journal workshops are held to help editors understand our Basic Criteria…
