DOAJ and EZB: Working together for more visibility of information on publishing.

A new collaboration will see DOAJ and EZB contribute to greater transparency in scholarly publishing, empowering authors with the information they need to make informed publishing decisions

#DOAJ #metadata #APCs #transparency #ScholComm #OpenAccess

All details at https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/10/doaj-and-ezb-working-together-for-more-visibility-of-information-on-publishing/

Nos complace anunciar que DOAJ se convertirá en una nueva entidad jurídica, la Fundación DOAJ, una fundación danesa sin ánimo de lucro.

Este cambio garantizará la sostenibilidad de DOAJ al proporcionar una gobernanza comunitaria más sólida y simplificar nuestra organización, lo que nos permitirá centrarnos en nuestra misión principal.

#DOAJ #DOAJFoundation #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter

https://blog.doaj.org/es/2025/03/25/doaj-announces-its-move-to-the-doaj-foundation/

#DOAJ has now introduced labels as a new feature in our metadata.

The first label is Subscribe to Open (S2O).

You can now easily identify the S2O logo in our journal search results and on individual journal pages.

#DOAJ #Metadata #S2O #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/21/launch-of-the-subscribe-to-open-s2o-label/

#DOAJ Vacancy - we are now recruiting Ambassadors for West Africa and Brazil

#DOAJ #DOAJAmbassadors #ScholComm #OpenAccess #DOAJVolunteers
#AcademicChatter

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/11/vacancy-doaj-ambassadors-for-west-africa-and-brazil/

Probably there are much more Diamond Journals in the world than the number we imagine.

The bureaucracy involved in adding a journal to the DOAJ is so great that many publishers probably give up on including their journals. They reject an application because of the smallest detail and the worst thing: the editor can only resubmit after 6 months!

The result: people are creating their own list of diamond journals.

It's Friday, and it's time for #DOAJ in numbers:

We index 21,315 #openaccess #journals from 136 countries and in 89 languages.

13,701 of those journals don't charge *any fees at all*.

We index 10,762,762 article records.

We are the most inclusive and diverse index of quality-controlled #OA journals in the world.

https://doaj.org/

I’m pleased to say that as of Monday I'll be working part-time as Head of Editorial at @DOAJ, the open access journal indexer lead by Joanna Ball. After working at three OA publishers and specialising in publication ethics, this role neatly blends my professional interests.

I'll still be available for other freelance work, providing it doesn't conflict with this role.

https://doaj.org
#DirectoryOfOpenAccessJournals #OpenAccess #DOAJ #EditorialPolicy #AcademicJournals #AcademicPublishing

The Directory of Open Access Journals (@DOAJ, #DOAJ) will retire its Seal by the end of March 2025.
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/01/08/results-of-our-community-consultation-forthcoming-changes-to-our-metadata-part-ii/

"By 2015 [one year after launch], it had become apparent that the Seal was…causing confusion. We heard of publishers and editors who didn’t want to submit a journal application until their journal was compliant for the Seal. Furthermore, we had unintentionally created a journal ranking system, which goes against our mission of giving equal visibility to all journals regardless of discipline, geography and language. Over time, due to the nature of the criteria, it became clear the Seal was easier to achieve for better-resourced journals…[Our] survey showed that the community associates the Seal with high editorial quality and prestige and some even use the Seal as a yardstick of whether they should access or recommend the journal or not."

Here's the current page on the DOAJ Seal.
https://doaj.org/apply/seal/

PS: I welcomed the introduction of the Seal in 2014 and accept its retirement. The DOAJ argument makes sense. But the seven criteria for earning the seal remain a good short list of best practices for #OpenAccess journal publishing.

We have just published two blog posts that cover the results of a community survey we carried out in 2024. There are two posts.

Part 1 covers important changes that we will make to remove some links and some questions: https://blog.doaj.org/2025/01/08/results-of-our-community-consultation-forthcoming-changes-to-our-metadata-part-i/

Part 2 focuses on retiring the DOAJ Seal, planned for the end of March 2025: https://blog.doaj.org/2025/01/08/results-of-our-community-consultation-forthcoming-changes-to-our-metadata-part-ii/

Note that DOAJ's criteria are not changing and neither is the application process.

Announcing an initiative to create a Planetary Science Diamond Open Access Journal

Are you sick of paying exorbitant fees to publish your work? Then please join our community to create a planetary science journal that is free for authors and readers alike.

We've updated our website so it's easier to see which fees a journal charges. We've made it easier to understand if a journal charges other fees apart from #APCs. The details are on our blog:

https://blog.doaj.org/2024/11/29/more-transparent-fee-information/

The #PlanetaryScience community is in the process of creating a new diamond open access journal (#DOAJ) that will be free for authors and free for readers.

We just had our first kickoff meeting yesterday, so if this is something that interests you, please check out the presentation and get involved!

PDF: https://sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/FA3kTgBCQ3N6yQK

Video recording: https://sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/HSdCDoqQ4PjjGwc

The first order of business is to converge on a name for the journal....

We’ve reached 21,000 peer-reviewed #openaccess journals indexed in #DOAJ

https://doaj.org/search/journals

We are so thankful for the fantastic work done by our volunteers and our team.

There are now a bunch of diamond open access journals in the geosciences. Before submitting to a traditional venue (evil or not), please check them out!

Volcanica: http://www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.php/volcanica

Seismika: https://seismica.library.mcgill.ca/

Tektonika: https://tektonika.online/

Geomorphica: https://journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/

Sedimentologika: https://oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk/index

The Sedimentary Record: https://thesedimentaryrecord.scholasticahq.com/

Please share!

We're looking for German- and Portuguese-speaking volunteers!

Read to apply:

https://blog.doaj.org/2024/09/24/call-for-volunteers-german-and-portuguese/

At @TIBopenpub all articles receive #DOI s. #ORCiD IDs and #ROR s are provided in their metadata.

Like at this article on the #ecosystem approach in agrivoltaic parks design by #AgataBuscemi: https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/agripv/article/view/1258

#OpenAccess colleagues: Please help the Directory of Open Access Journals (@DOAJ, #DOAJ) by filling out this survey. I just did.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DOAJconsultation