{"id":2024,"date":"2018-08-07T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T09:00:46","slug":"news-oaspa-to-require-doaj-listing-for-single-journal-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2018\/08\/07\/news-oaspa-to-require-doaj-listing-for-single-journal-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"News: OASPA to require DOAJ listing for single-journal publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2025 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/doajournals.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/oaspa_logo.jpg\" alt=\"OASPA_Logo.jpg\" width=\"328\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oaspa_logo.jpg 647w, https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oaspa_logo-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/>DOAJ and <a href=\"https:\/\/oaspa.org\/\">OASPA<\/a> have worked together for many years now, with our Founder and Managing Director, <span style=\"font-weight:400\">Lars Bj\u00f8rnshauge, serving as an OASPA board member for the past 5 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Publisher applications to OASPA have been rapidly increasing,&nbsp;in particular from those publishing just one journal. Given the many similarities in the indexing criteria between DOAJ&nbsp;and OASPA, we have agreed that all single-journal publishers that apply to&nbsp;OASPA will now be referred to DOAJ if the journal is not already listed in the DOAJ database.<\/p>\n<p>Both organisations feel that this change is in the best interests of single-journal applicants because indexing by DOAJ is the most effective way for these journals to increase their visibility, and this is often their stated reason for applying to join OASPA.<\/p>\n<p>Once a journal is indexed by DOAJ, applicants that still wish to join OASPA should get back&nbsp;in touch with them. However, publishers should note that OASPA have&nbsp;some specific requirements that differ from ours, particularly with respect to<br \/>\nlicensing. Approval by DOAJ will not&nbsp;automatically mean acceptance by OASPA.<\/p>\n<p>Following the implementation of this new policy and other membership criteria introduced last year, OASPA will be working with any of their existing members who don&#8217;t now meet their criteria to encourage improvements and apply to have their journals listed in DOAJ.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/oaspa.org\/oaspa-assessment-of-single-journal-applications-and-doaj\">announcement by OASPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOAJ and OASPA have worked together for many years now, with our Founder and Managing Director, Lars Bj\u00f8rnshauge, serving as an OASPA board member for the past 5 years. Publisher applications to OASPA have been rapidly increasing,&nbsp;in particular from those publishing just one journal. Given the many similarities in the indexing criteria between DOAJ&nbsp;and OASPA,&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[609,620],"tags":[100,361],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-and-best-practice","category-press-release","tag-best-practice","tag-oaspa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}