DOAJ has been an active member of OASPA (a membership organisation for open access publishers) for many years. One of the many outstanding events hosted by OASPA is their annual conference. With travel restrictions in place, the conference went online and, well, it flourished! Last year’s conference was probably one of the most diverse events…
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,…
This is a guest post by our Associate Editor Sofia Fagiolo. Sofia Fagiolo is a librarian with experience in cataloging and archives and a keen interest in scholarlycommunication and open access. Recently, she has worked at the Campus Bio-Medico University ofRome. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Archival and Library Science and a Master’s degree…
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This is a guest post by Sophy, our UX Designer. Accessibility has always been a top priority in doaj.org’s redesign project, along with improving: user experience, navigation, and responsiveness on various devices, browsers, and operating systems. We approached the project with the idea that accessibility, as opposed to branding and visual design, is foundational to…
This is a guest post from John G. Dove, one of our DOAJ Ambassadors for North America. Covid-19 is hitting all of our institutions, such as libraries and the organizations which support them, very hard. At the same time, it is shining the public’s eye on the importance of access to information in general and…
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…
This is a guest post by Gaëlle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre. ISSN is a partner of DOAJ. As of December 2019, the ISSN International Centre is the sole operator of the Keepers Registry. This service aggregates preservation metadata and ISSN descriptive metadata to report the archival status of digital journals. The Keepers…
We are excited to announce that we have appointed four new DOAJ ambassadors in Latin America, North America and Africa. Gimena del Rio Riande from Argentina will be our second ambassador for Latin America sharing this role with Ivonne Lujano from Mexico. Gimena is a researcher at IIBICRIT, the institute for Bibliographic Research and Textual…
It’s a new year and a new decade. This year, DOAJ turns 17 and much like a teenager, we have seen a major growth spurt over the last 4 years, peaking at a total of 14.25 million unique users at the end of 2019. 2020 will see further transformation into a maturer, more rounded service….
