Search Results for: reapplication

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Supporting the inclusion of J-STAGE journals in DOAJ

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…

What’s in a “NAME”? A study of African and Arab journals in the DOAJ

This is a guest post by Souheil Houissa, editor of the North Africa & Middle East (NAME) group, and long-serving DOAJ volunteer. He wrote the article in February 2020 so the statistics are historical. (As of today, the group has processed 536 applications.) However, the general conclusions drawn throughout the article are still valid. Journal…

Myth: “DOAJ takes too long to reach a decision”

This is a myth. From about 2012 until 2017, DOAJ was struggling to keep on top of the amount of applications being received. Implementing new acceptance criteria and making 9900+ journals reapply exacerbated the problem and suddenly we had many reapplications and new applications coming in at the same time. Triage All applications go through…

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DOAJ’s open letter to SSHA communities about Plan S

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…

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DOAJ Editors on the effects of the new DOAJ criteria

This is a guest post by Andrea Marchitelli, Paola Galimberti and Andrea Bollini, who write about their experience of being DOAJ editors and their published paper: “Helping journals to improve their publishing standards: a data analysis of DOAJ new criteria effects” After DOAJ implemented new criteria for inclusion of open access journals and invited all…