This guest blog post by Li Bo offers a librarian’s perspective on the core role of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in academic work, including discovering, accessing, and analyzing high-quality open access journals, as well as its practical applications in journal selection, data analysis, and promoting open science. As an advocate for Open…
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…
Guest post by Tracy Creagh About the author Tracy Creagh is Journal Manager for Academic Journals in Queensland University of Technology’s Office for Scholarly Communication, managing a small number of Diamond open access, scholarly journals. As well, she is Managing Editor of the Student Success Journal, a Diamond journal now supported by the University of…
Willa Liburd Tavernier (she/her) is the Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian at Indiana University, Bloomington. She manages open scholarship resources at IU Bloomington Libraries and provides publication data and data analysis to library administration, as well as colleges and departments, for institutional decision-making. Willa is committed to advancing inclusion and belonging in her work…
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…
