Web scraping to train large language models has surged in the past few years, overwhelming open access infrastructures like DOAJ with massive bot traffic. In this post, DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O’Connell discusses how we’re responding to these challenges. Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, it’s been impossible to escape endless news headlines about…
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…
From 2025, any updates to the DOAJ Criteria in the Guide to Applying will be scheduled to quarterly updates. The change log at the end of the webpage tracks the version history of the criteria and also highlights the most recent changes to the criteria. Our previous update in March 2025 added revised information for…
Throughout 2025, DOAJ will spotlight Diamond open access journals that we index, highlighting our ongoing efforts to enhance the visibility and impact of no-fee community-led journals worldwide. Rooted in Diamond DOAJ has a long history of championing Diamond open access as an equitable and sustainable model for scholarly publishing. We launched in 2003 with around…
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…
You might have wondered how many people are behind the scenes at DOAJ and what they do. This blog post series will offer our community an opportunity to meet several of our team members and learn more about their roles and responsibilities. In this blog post, we will meet Iemima Ploscariu, Managing Editor and Volunteer…
About DOAJ DOAJ (https://doaj.org) is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community. We are committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. The index offers free online access and visibility to the thousands of publishers, journals and authors who produce…
As part of our continuous efforts to improve the visibility and discoverability of the journals we index, we have implemented three changes to enhance discovery:(1) When you supply metadata to us, the ISSNs must be in the appropriate tag.(2) The articles index page now has its unique URL: https://doaj.org/toc/articles/… plus the ISSN.(3) We’ve added ‘country’…
Two years ago, DOAJ announced it would take proactive steps to prevent open access journals from disappearing from the Internet. Two months later, Project JASPER was born. JASPER is a cross-industry collaboration with one main goal: to help open access journals be preserved long-term. It sounds simple, but there are challenges. Lack of resources and…
DOAJ is twenty years old in 2023. Twenty years is a long time, and although not everything has changed with the speed that we had hoped it would or in the direction we had envisaged, DOAJ has undoubtedly changed the landscape of open scholarly communication for the better. Looking back Open, Global, and Trusted have…
