le DOAJ and the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) are pleased to announce a new partnership aimed at increasing the visibility and discoverability of high-quality Chinese open access journals in China and internationally.
As part of this partnership, DOAJ and CUJS will continue to work together on organising the DOAJ China Day event and participating in other promotional activities to raise awareness of open access and DOAJ in China. In addition, both organisations may collaborate on other project-based initiatives to promote open access and support best practices.
DOAJ Managing Director Joanna Ball says, “We are delighted to formalise our collaboration with the Society of China University Journals. This partnership builds on the success of two DOAJ China Day events held in collaboration with CUJS in 2023 and 2025, bringing together journal editors, publishers and infrastructure providers to discuss best practices in open access publishing. China has a rapidly developing open access publishing community, and we are proud that DOAJ now indexes more than 550 journals from China. We hope this partnership will improve awareness of the benefits of open access and best practices in scholarly publishing for journals in China.”
Zhang Tieming, CUJS President, adds, “After more than 20 years of rapid development, global open access has entered a phase of discussion, storing new power, and waiting for the next upgrading. CUJS and DOAJ strengthening collaboration will provide new support for the quality improvement and scale expansion of the open access movement in China and globally.”
About CUJS
The Society of China University Journals is an academic, national and non-profit organization voluntarily formed by the editorial departments of STEM journals sponsored by universities and relevant institutions under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and provincial education administrations. CUJS has over 1,300 unit members and more than 4,000 individual members, with five internal departments and 16 branches. CUJS carries out academic research and training programs in open access, research integrity, peer-review and publishing technology, and has close engagement with international academic publishing societies.
About DOAJ
le DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ deploys more than one hundred carefully selected volunteers from the community of library and other academic disciplines to assist in curating open access journals. This independent database contains over 22,000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. DOAJ is financially supported worldwide by libraries, publishers, and other like-minded organizations.
Contact: DOAJ – Cenyu Shen cenyu@doaj.org CUJS – Jun Liu, aaa_0119@163.com
