Here’s some good news for a Thursday. In May we will be starting our next development projects: a metadata harvester and an API. For the harvester, we will run a pilot phase collecting the PLoS metadata. Just by gathering PLoS metadata alone, we will very quickly double our existing article count. In 2016, we’ll scale up…
We are always looking for volunteers to help us review the applications for journals wishing to be indexed in DOAJ. We have well over 100 people, from all over the world, helping us already. It’s a growing and exciting network to be part of and the work being done directly contributes to the quality of…
If the SPARC piece we recently featured in didn’t give you a good idea into the amount of work that we’re undertaking to improve DOAJ—and ultimately the overall quality of open access publishing—then this [incomplete] list of our developments for 2015 should provide you with a fuller picture. We’re coming to the end of a…
There has been a lot of focus in research on author processing charges (APCs) and submission charges, particularly in the last 16 months or so and DOAJ data is often used as a basis of that research. Heather Morrison’s recent article in Publications and Walt Crawford’s research published in Cites and Insights are two very…
We would like to thank all of you for what has turned out to be a wonderful and successful year for DOAJ: we launched our advanced application form and created our network of voluntary Associate Editors and Editors who help us process reapplications and new applications. The DOAJ Team is particularly grateful this year to…
Whether you are studying, researching, teaching, publishing—or simply interested in the open web, open knowledge, open learning and open data—it won’t have escaped you that next week is International Open Access Week. All over the world, groups are pulling together some fantastic events: there are webinars, seminars and competitions, many of them freely open to…
Earlier this week, Nature News & Comment published a piece about the DOAJ under the heading ‘Open-access website gets tough‘. We are happy about the exposure but there are a couple of things to address. 1) Coming to the end of a process started in December 2012 The process of drafting new, tougher criteria started…
We regularly receive notification that DOAJ data has been used for analysis; analysis done by publishers, librarians, students, technologists, bloggers and many others. That the data is central to so many studies continues to reinforce the importance of the DOAJ in the open access movement. We are confident that, once our current upgrade is complete,…
DOAJ recently attended, and gave a plenary session at, the 35th conference for the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries. The presentation gave conference delegates an update on progress with the new application form and details of the our network of volunteers: the DOAJ Associate Editors and Editors. I’d like to share a…
Thanks to feedback from the community, we’ve been able to make some small changes and clarifications to the Application form. We haven’t changed anything that affects the information required by the form but we have changed some of the Help texts and, hopefully, made the task of filling out the form slightly simpler. The following…
