Algebraic Combinatorics is an open access mathematics journal based in the U.S., owned by its editorial board, and published by the Combinatorics Consortium. As part of our ‘Story behind the journal’ series, DOAJ spoke with Dr. Sara Billey from the University of Washington, who is a member of the Steering Committee. Tell us about the…
The Colombo Business Journal is an international open access journal based in Sri Lanka and published by the Faculty of Management and Finance at the University of Colombo. As part of our ‘Story behind the journal’ series, DOAJ spoke with Dinuka Wijetunga, the Editor in Chief. Tell us about the Colombo Business Journal The Colombo…
The journal Early Modern Low Countries is an open access journal based in the Netherlands and run by the non-profit Foundation Early Modern Low Countries. As part of our ‘Story behind the journal’ series, DOAJ spoke with Dr. David van der Linden, the managing editor. Tell us about the Early Modern Low Countries journal Early…
Christof Schöch, from the University of Trier, Germany details how the DOAJ journal dataset is used at the University to teach Python programming for Machine Learning in a Digital Humanities Master’s program. Students learn practical skills like data cleaning, analysis, and classification. The real-world complexity of the dataset provides essential experience beyond simple “toy datasets”…
On August 1, 2021, the academic journal Karib – Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies ceased its publication, marking the end of a key resource for scholars and researchers in Caribbean studies. However, the journal’s rich contributions to the field will not be lost. Thanks to the efforts of JASPER, a collaboration between, among others, the…
Guest post by Tracy Creagh About the author Tracy Creagh is Journal Manager for Academic Journals in Queensland University of Technology’s Office for Scholarly Communication, managing a small number of Diamond open access, scholarly journals. As well, she is Managing Editor of the Student Success Journal, a Diamond journal now supported by the University of…
DOAJ continues to collaborate with SUES. SUES offers help through mentoring, support towards DOAJ/DOAB inclusion and small scholarships to support day-to-day operations. The current crowdfunding campaign’s goal is to fund 10 scholarships of 1,500 EUR each. (In case there are more funds collected the number of scholarships will be increased). The SUES Scientific Committee considered…
Project JASPER was announced on World Preservation Day in November 2020. The initiative was launched by DOAJ, CLOCKSS, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry and Public Knowledge Project to start addressing the problem of open access journals disappearing from the web. We thought it was time for another update on what has been going on behind the…
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…
To add clarity to our criteria of when a new journal may apply to DOAJ, we are adding new guidance that specifically addresses newly-launched journals: Newly launched journals must demonstrate a publishing history of more than one year, or have published at least 10 articles. This is in addition to the requirement to publish at…
