Throughout 2025, DOAJ will spotlight Diamond open access journals that we index, highlighting our ongoing efforts to enhance the visibility and impact of no-fee community-led journals worldwide. Rooted in Diamond DOAJ has a long history of championing Diamond open access as an equitable and sustainable model for scholarly publishing. We launched in 2003 with around…
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…
You might have wondered how many people are behind the scenes at DOAJ and what they do. This blog post series will offer our community an opportunity to meet several of our team members and learn more about their roles and responsibilities. In this blog post, we will meet Iemima Ploscariu, Managing Editor and Volunteer…
About DOAJ DOAJ (https://doaj.org) is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community. We are committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. The index offers free online access and visibility to the thousands of publishers, journals and authors who produce…
As part of our continuous efforts to improve the visibility and discoverability of the journals we index, we have implemented three changes to enhance discovery:(1) When you supply metadata to us, the ISSNs must be in the appropriate tag.(2) The articles index page now has its unique URL: https://doaj.org/toc/articles/… plus the ISSN.(3) We’ve added ‘country’…
Two years ago, DOAJ announced it would take proactive steps to prevent open access journals from disappearing from the Internet. Two months later, Project JASPER was born. JASPER is a cross-industry collaboration with one main goal: to help open access journals be preserved long-term. It sounds simple, but there are challenges. Lack of resources and…
DOAJ is twenty years old in 2023. Twenty years is a long time, and although not everything has changed with the speed that we had hoped it would or in the direction we had envisaged, DOAJ has undoubtedly changed the landscape of open scholarly communication for the better. Looking back Open, Global, and Trusted have…
DOAJ has four premier supporters in 2021. These are publishers or organisations that have committed a sustainable amount of funding to the platform. One of those premier supporters is PeerJ. We sent off some questions to PeerJ’s Nathaniel Gore to find out a little more about him, about PeerJ, and about what the publisher is…
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,…
DOAJ is a not-for-profit service, under the Infrastructure Services for Open Access umbrella, and is the most important and diverse, free directory of peer-reviewed, open access journals in the world. Since 2014, DOAJ is the collective efforts of a large community of volunteers, Ambassadors and DOAJ Managing Editors soliciting, reviewing and approving open access journals….
