DOAJ in 2020 and beyond – a closer look
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...
View ArticleThe DOAJ Ambassadors’ biographies
As promised in our post presenting the 15 Ambassadors, here are their biographies. Kamel Belhamel, Region: North Africa Kamel holds a PhD from the University of Setif (Algeria) in Chemical Process...
View ArticleCLOSED Vacancy: Community Manager, DOAJ – freelance
Closing date: 21st November 2022 About DOAJ DOAJ offers free online access and visibility to the thousands of publishers, journals and authors who produce quality, peer-reviewed, open access content....
View ArticleA PLACE for scholarly publishers
The Publishers Learning And Community Exchange (PLACE) at theplace.discourse.group is a new online public forum created for organisations who wish to adopt best practices in scholarly publishing....
View ArticleThe story behind the journal: Physics Access
Physics Access is an open access journal based in Nigeria published by the Department of Physics, Kaduna State University. As part of our ‘Story behind the journal’ series, DOAJ spoke with the...
View ArticleSustaining DOAJ: our new support model for libraries
The momentum towards Open Access publishing is stronger than ever. We are witnessing a remarkable increase in the number of journals flipping to open access and seeing a growth in community-led...
View ArticleAn interview with Emily Choynowski from Knowledge E
Tell us a little about yourself, and what you do at Knowledge E Photo of Emily Choynowski I did a Phd in Literature and Religion, and drifted into research publishing. After my husband was given a...
View ArticleDOAJ at 20 – a year of celebration in review
On the 12th May 2023, DOAJ officially turned 20 years old. To celebrate 20 years of being a key part of the open infrastructures, DOAJ at 20 was launched as a campaign throughout the year to connect...
View ArticleDOAJ’s community consultation. Tell us what you think!
TLDR—We’re contacting our user communities to learn what you think about our journal metadata, our policy of which journals we index, the DOAJ Seal, and more. We have published a survey and encourage...
View ArticleConsulta comunitaria del DOAJ. ¡Decidnos qué pensáis!
TLDR—Nos estamos comunicando con nuestras comunidades de usuarios para saber qué piensan sobre los metadatos de nuestras revistas, nuestra política sobre qué revistas indexamos, el Sello DOAJ y más....
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