Interview with Xiaotian Chen, Electronic Services Librarian / Associate Professor at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA and Editor at DOAJ. When did you start volunteering for DOAJ? I started as the editor of DOAJ’s Chinese Group in 2014, working with a couple of associate editors. In January 2018, I became the editor of the newly created…
DOAJ has approximately 100 volunteers carrying out important reviewing work for it. These volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds within academia, journal publishing or from libraries. DOAJ relies on these volunteers to keep applications flowing through the system. In the first of a new series, we are highlighting our volunteers’ skills and interests which…
This is a guest post by Ina Smith, our Ambassador for Southern Africa. Ina managed the pilot for the African Open Science Platform project from October 2016 until October 2019. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in Computer-Integrated Education, a Higher Education Teaching Diploma, and two degrees (BBibl and…
This is a guest post by Richard Jones, founding partner of Cottage Labs and member of the DOAJ team. Cottage Labs has hosted, developed and managed the DOAJ platform since December 2013 and is responsible for keeping DOAJ available to the vast number of individuals using DOAJ every day. To the public, it may seem…
Martina Dvořáková, editor at Masaryk University Press, introduces the OJS Diamond plugins, a set of free, open-source tools from the CRAFT-OA project designed to significantly improve the visibility and discoverability of Diamond journals. The shining star of the set is the DISCO plugin (Discoverability Companion), which acts as a checklist to help journal editors easily…
A common problem seen in DOAJ applications is endogeny, i.e., editorial board members publishing too often in their own journals. In this guest post, Maryna Nazarovets and Serhii Nazarovets discuss the related idea of editorial endogamy and how university journal publishers can uphold editorial independence and avoid nepotism. University journals often start their journey to…
Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s open access landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges. Ramazan also proposes actionable recommendations to enhance sustainability and international visibility. Türkiye’s OA landscape Although there is no single, complete registry of open access (OA) journals in Türkiye, the DIAMAS Türkiye Country…
In this guest post, Donna Coventry and Luqman Hayes discuss the value of Tuwhera, an open access platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at AUT (Auckland University of Technology) in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Tell us a little about Tuwhera – and particularly the OA journals…
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…
