Guest post: Creating value for peer review. Why not?
DOAJ has approximately 100 volunteers carrying out important reviewing work for it. These volunteers come from a variety of backgroundsContinue Reading
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Article uploads: the importance of an ISSN
This is a reminder that in February this year we tightened up procedures for article uploads. This includes checks thatContinue Reading
Why do we ask applicants to wait 6 months before they apply again?
When we reject an application, the rejection email contains details about why the application was not successful and usually tellsContinue Reading
Quality of DOAJ listed journals
A recently published article on a comparison of blacklists and whitelists draws the conclusion that “In the DOAJ, more criteriaContinue Reading
Feature: article upload enhancements
At DOAJ, we work hard to maintain a high level of recency and accuracy in our metadata. All of ourContinue Reading
Are you using an up-to-date version of DOAJ metadata? Apparently not.
Did you know that DOAJ’s metadata refreshes every 30 minutes? Given how many changes we, the DOAJ Team, make toContinue Reading
El DOAJ, independencia y la importancia de la imparcialidad
El DOAJ recibe regularmente preguntas y, a veces, quejas de bibliotecas, consorcios de bibliotecas y otras instituciones académicas sobre elContinue Reading
DOAJ, Independence and the Importance of Impartiality
DOAJ receives regularly questions and, sometimes, complaints from libraries, library consortia and other academic institutions about the role which publishers—byContinue Reading
’10 web design features that are now browser history’ – or, at least, they should be.
A great blog post from the summer, published on the DataSalon blog and written by Jon Monday, caught our attentionContinue Reading
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