Edinost in Dialog (Unity and Dialogue) is an open access journal based in Slovenia, published by the Faculty of Theology of the University of Ljubljana. As part of our ‘Story behind the journal’ series, DOAJ spoke with Dr. Samo Skralovnik, the Editor in Chief. Tell us about Edinost in Dialog Edinost in Dialog (Unity and…
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…
Jules Luck, an Accessibility and Production Specialist at Penn State University Libraries, utilises the OA Journals Toolkit as an essential resource for managing their portfolio of open access journals. Jules highlights the Toolkit’s accessibility remediation section as particularly impactful and discusses the importance of collaborative efforts to build such community-driven open scholarship resources. Tell us…
DOAJ provides a unique, openly available set of journal metadata that supports the global research community. As Dominic Mitchell and Katrine Sundsbø note, its strength lies in its community-driven approach and relies on publishers, editors, and users maintaining accuracy by updating records or reporting errors. Without journal metadata, DOAJ wouldn’t be anything. Without publishers applying…
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…
