Interview with Xiaotian Chen, Electronic Services Librarian / Associate Professor at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA and Editor at DOAJ. When did you start volunteering for DOAJ? I started as the editor of DOAJ’s Chinese Group in 2014, working with a couple of associate editors. In January 2018, I became the editor of the newly created…
DOAJ has approximately 100 volunteers carrying out important reviewing work for it. These volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds within academia, journal publishing or from libraries. DOAJ relies on these volunteers to keep applications flowing through the system. In the first of a new series, we are highlighting our volunteers’ skills and interests which…
This is a guest post by Ina Smith, our Ambassador for Southern Africa. Ina managed the pilot for the African Open Science Platform project from October 2016 until October 2019. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in Computer-Integrated Education, a Higher Education Teaching Diploma, and two degrees (BBibl and…
This is a guest post by Richard Jones, founding partner of Cottage Labs and member of the DOAJ team. Cottage Labs has hosted, developed and managed the DOAJ platform since December 2013 and is responsible for keeping DOAJ available to the vast number of individuals using DOAJ every day. To the public, it may seem…
At DOAJ, we are dedicated to upholding trust in scholarly publishing by ensuring that questionable journals are not included in our directory. Our quality team is central to this effort, conducting in-depth investigations into cases of concern. In 2024 alone, the team dedicated more than 830 hours on over 470 investigations. Our Deputy Head of…
Guest post by Tracy Creagh About the author Tracy Creagh is Journal Manager for Academic Journals in Queensland University of Technology’s Office for Scholarly Communication, managing a small number of Diamond open access, scholarly journals. As well, she is Managing Editor of the Student Success Journal, a Diamond journal now supported by the University of…
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…
This is a guest blog post by Mikael Laakso. About the author Mikael Laakso works as an Associate Professor (tenure track) in Information Studies at Tampere University, Finland where he specializes in scholarly communication and open science. Since 2009 he has been researching the changing landscape towards openness in scholarly publishing by studying combinations of…
We have listened to and consulted with the community and, as a result, we have removed a restriction in order to avoid unjustly penalising reputable journals. In November 2023, we announced new criteria for inclusion in DOAJ relating to the publication of special issues. We were pleased that community feedback on the new criteria was…
There has been a proliferation of special issues recently. DOAJ is responding to concerns from the community by adding new criteria to its Basic criteria. After today, all new applications submitted must comply with them. We work hard to ensure we only include trustworthy journals in the directory. We have responded to concerns around the…
