DOAJ indexes a diverse range of high-quality open access journals, and often more from under-represented regions than other indexes. Tom Olyhoek, Editor-in-Chief, takes a fresh look at the data and tells us how this data is helping to develop DOAJ’s Ambassador program. In 2019, we published a study showing that DOAJ listed the largest number…
In 2021, Karger Publishers committed to being a sustaining supporter of DOAJ. This is great news and we are grateful to Karger for their continued and committed support. I wanted to find out a bit more about this Swiss publisher so I sent some questions off to Beth Bayley, their Open Science Manager. Hi Beth,…
[Applications are now closed.] DOAJ is looking for a freelance PR Officer (or Associate) to start immediately. The PR Officer role is a part-time role, working remotely, for up to 15 hours per week. It is a mid-level position. Why are we looking for a PR Officer? The main duties The main duties of the…
[APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED] DOAJ is looking for a freelance Marketing and PR Officer to start immediately. The Marketing and PR Officer role is a part-time role, working remotely. The maximum number of hours per week is 30. Why are we looking for a Marketing and PR Officer? DOAJ is the world’s only free, independent,…
We are rewriting our website in plain English so that it is easy for our users, especially publishers, to understand what is required for a good quality and complete application. These are first steps to us: becoming even more open and transparent; offering a greatly improved user experience for a new application form; starting a…
PRESS RELEASE DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) are collaborating on a pilot project to encourage and help peer-reviewed open access (OA) journals published in Finland to be indexed in DOAJ. The Pilot runs from May 2019 to May 2020. DOAJ has set an international standard for…
The recently published Royal Historical Society (RHS) working paper on Plan S contains some errors about the role that DOAJ might play in Plan S certification. These misunderstandings are commonplace and we, the DOAJ Management Team, have seen them before in other responses to Plan S. They are disappointing but they are not surprising. The…
