Myth-busting: DOAJ indexes “predatory” journals
This is, of course, a myth. Some people are afraid to use DOAJ because they believe that it lists questionableContinue Reading
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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
Are we overestimating the problem of “predatory” publishing?
In order to unravel the unjustified association of open access with bad or even predatory publishing Tom Olijhoek and JonContinue Reading
DOAJ does not endorse Academics Era conferences | Say Hello to Think Check Attend
It has come to our attention that a series of conferences hosted by Academics Era all show the DOAJ logoContinue Reading
WARNING: doaj.co, doaj.net
Two URLs have been brought to our attention which I wanted to alert the community to. The first, doaj.co,Continue Reading
WARNING: Avantipub.com
**UPDATE November 2020: this post is about a email scam where the sender pretended to be from “Avantipub.com”, a non-existentContinue Reading
Are you publishing in a proper journal?
This is a guest post by Vrushali Dandawate, DOAJ Ambassador, India. All over the world researchers are spending theirContinue Reading
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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 andContinue Reading
‘Indexed in DOAJ’ versus ‘the DOAJ Seal’
I need to clarify what being indexed in DOAJ means and how the Seal is related to that, and howContinue Reading
The other fight
As well as DOAJ’s fight against questionable publishing practices, journals and publishers, the other fight is against the traditional desireContinue Reading
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