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….
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…
In February 2021, EBSCO became a sustaining contributor of DOAJ. I sat down with EBSCO’s Tamir Borensztajn, Vice President of Saas Strategy, to chat about EBSCO’s role as a discovery service, what Tamir thinks about “open” and where he thinks scholarly publishing is heading. Hello Tamir! I want to start by thanking you because under your…
Open access has become more important than ever – last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, greater numbers of people turned to online information sources. With universities and libraries closed and scholars working from home, at DOAJ, we saw an increase of almost half a million individual users to the DOAJ website in 2020 –…
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…
[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,…
