Over several years, SCOSS has successfully supported two pledging rounds for Open Science Infrastructures to help the beneficiary organisations become more sustainable. SCOSS are about to announce a third cycle and find themselves in the position of both looking back at what they have achieved and thinking forward, about SCOSS’s future. “What’s next?” they ask. Before…
PRESS RELEASE FinELib, the Finnish consortium for universities, research institutions and universities of applied sciences, has agreed to provide funding to DOAJ over a 3-year period. The consortium has promised funds to DOAJ in recognition of the valuable contribution that DOAJ makes to open access and scholarly publishing. The move follows hot on the heels…
(Repost from the SCOSS website.) We are delighted to announce that the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has reached its funding target to cover its operational costs as were outlined in its SCOSS application. Eight consortia and 175 institutions/organisations from 18 different countries have committed support to DOAJ. “We’d like to thank our supporters….
We are very happy to be able to announce Université de Lorraine as the first French institution to join our growing list of institutions who have committed to provide sustainable funding to DOAJ for a period of three years as recommended by SCOSS. Frédéric Villiéras, vice-provost for research at Université de Lorraine says: “We are…
Thanks to dozens of quick-acting universities and institutions in Australia, Europe & North America, a new effort to secure Open Science infrastructure is off to a strong start. More than 680 000 Euros have been pledged to support DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO already. In a press release issued by SPARC Europe on 14th August 2018, Vannessa…
DOAJ is very pleased for the support received from CAUL and the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) towards a sustainable funding model promoted by SCOSS. These two new additions enlarge the list of institutions who have committed funds to support DOAJ and Open Access. The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is pleased to be a…
As reported in November, a coalition has been formed called SCOSS which is running a pilot project aimed at generating a sustaining model of funding for DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO. The iniative sets out to attract funding from around the world and it is with great delight that DOAJ can announce it has now received its…
DOAJ operates without grant funding, relying on ongoing and collective community support to ensure open access research remains visible, discoverable, and trusted worldwide. In this post, Managing Director Joanna Ball provides a fundraising and collaboration update for 2025. At DOAJ, sustainability isn’t just a strategic priority, it’s a daily concern. As a small team running…
Libraries are the lifeblood of DOAJ. We were founded at Lund University Libraries in 2003, and our growth and development have been fuelled by the library community, particularly through our crowdfunding model pioneered by Lars Bjønshauge in 2013. We are proud of our shared values and strong connections with the academic library community. Preliminary results…
Here’s a selection of what we hope to achieve in 2024. Projects include reviewing our successful Ambassador programme, a community survey discovering how our metadata can best serve our stakeholder groups, editorial developments to help us remain efficient in reviewing the increasing number of applications and journal records, a new subject classification system for journals,…
