{"id":2112,"date":"2019-01-03T13:53:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2019-01-03T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:53:09","slug":"doaj-progress-report-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2019\/01\/03\/doaj-progress-report-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DOAJ Progress Report for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very Happy New Year to all our readers. We wish you all the best for 2019. It’s going to be an exciting year for DOAJ and for open access. Much of the work which you can read about below will come to fruition in 2019 , as well as new opportunities presenting themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a revised set of Principles of Transparency and Best Practice<\/a> and a new mission<\/a>,  DOAJ started 2018 by publishing its <\/span>strategy<\/span><\/a> to show the community where DOAJ is focussing its efforts: a) funding and sustainability; b) functionality, stability and scalability; c) education and outreach. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financially, DOAJ has seen the benefits of the SCOSS initiative<\/a>, with more than 60% of all monies being donated from the public sector:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Income 2017 and 2018 per category in \u00a3 (GBPs)<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td>2017<\/strong><\/td> <\/td>2018<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Libraries<\/td>89,000<\/td>26%<\/td>282,867<\/td>46%<\/td><\/tr>
Library Consortia<\/td>86,000<\/td>26%<\/td>146,590<\/td>24%<\/td><\/tr>
Research Funders<\/td>31,000<\/td>9%<\/td>45,900<\/td>8%<\/td><\/tr>
Smaller Publishers<\/td>8,000<\/td>2%<\/td>4,471<\/td>1%<\/td><\/tr>
Sponsors<\/td>123,000<\/td>36%<\/td>129,555<\/td>21%<\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/strong><\/td>337,000<\/strong><\/td> <\/td>609,383<\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Below are details of the major projects that we have undertaken in 2018. The terms in brackets correspond to the three arms of the strategy. If you have any questions about them, or would like to know more, please get in touch: dom@doaj.org.The full details of DOAJ finances are <\/span>always posted on the IS4OA website<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Faster evaluation of journals (funding and sustainability)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

We have made <\/span>excellent progress in this area<\/b> and this will be of real interest to many of our stakeholders, particularly the publishers. For the first time since before 2013, we do not have a backlog of applications waiting to be triaged*<\/em><\/strong>. Here are the changes we made which led to this excellent result:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From mid-December 2017 to mid-December 2018, Triage rejected without review over 2000 poorly completed applications, removing them from the system so that they wouldn\u2019t end up with the editorial teams.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n