There are two important changes around metadata and licensing that you need to know about since we relaunched our site. … More
Category: Copyright and licensing
DOAJ’s Basic criteria – updated and rewritten in plain English
We are rewriting our website in plain English so that it is easy for our users, especially publishers, to understand … More
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 el … More
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—by … More
Copyright and Licensing – Part 4
This is the fourth post in a series, by our Editor-in-Chief Tom Olijhoek, which focusses on the details of copyright … More
Copyright and Licensing – Part 3
In 2016, we published 2 blog posts on copyright and licensing: Part1 and Part 2. In these posts we explained and … More
CHALLENGES OF THE LATIN AMERICAN OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING MODEL
This is a guest post by Ivonne Lujano, DOAJ Ambassador, Latin America A current search in the DOAJ database reveals … More
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN SPAIN
This is a guest post by Miguel Navas, member of AccesoAbierto research group and Librarian at the Catalan Government in Barcelona, … More
Policy updates: open access statement and user registration
Open Access Statement Until recently, DOAJ has insisted that journals state very clearly on their web site a full and … More
New article on DOAJ available at ScienceOpen
We have just published an article in the open access journal ScienceOpen Research, giving an overview of the history and … More
