The journal Early Modern Low Countries is an open access journal based in the Netherlands and run by the non-profit Foundation Early Modern Low Countries. As part of our ‘Story behind the journal’ series, DOAJ spoke with Dr. David van der Linden, the managing editor. Tell us about the Early Modern Low Countries journal Early…
On August 1, 2021, the academic journal Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies ceased its publication, marking the end of a key resource for scholars and researchers in Caribbean studies. However, the journal’s rich contributions to the field will not be lost. Thanks to the efforts of JASPER, a collaboration between, among others, the…
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…
DOAJ continues to collaborate with SUES. SUES offers help through mentoring, support towards DOAJ/DOAB inclusion and small scholarships to support day-to-day operations. The current crowdfunding campaign’s goal is to fund 10 scholarships of 1,500 EUR each. (In case there are more funds collected the number of scholarships will be increased). The SUES Scientific Committee considered…
Project JASPER was announced on World Preservation Day in November 2020. The initiative was launched by DOAJ, CLOCKSS, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry and Public Knowledge Project to start addressing the problem of open access journals disappearing from the web. We thought it was time for another update on what has been going on behind the…
This is a guest post by our colleagues at J-STAGE, Japan. We are working with them to encourage the open access journals on their platform to submit applications to be indexed. Along the lines of previous projects with groups in Finland, Canada, and Denmark, journal workshops are held to help editors understand our Basic Criteria…
To add clarity to our criteria of when a new journal may apply to DOAJ, we are adding new guidance that specifically addresses newly-launched journals: Newly launched journals must demonstrate a publishing history of more than one year, or have published at least 10 articles. This is in addition to the requirement to publish at…
A great blog post from the summer, published on the DataSalon blog and written by Jon Monday, caught our attention recently. Written in celebration of 25 years of the World Wide Web, the blog post looks ‘back on some design features from the early days of the Web’ which have been consigned to “browser history”….
Web scraping to train large language models has surged in the past few years, overwhelming open access infrastructures like DOAJ with massive bot traffic. In this post, DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O’Connell discusses how we’re responding to these challenges. Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, it’s been impossible to escape endless news headlines about…
In this guest post, Donna Coventry and Luqman Hayes discuss the value of Tuwhera, an open access platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at AUT (Auckland University of Technology) in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Tell us a little about Tuwhera – and particularly the OA journals…
