In 2025, DOAJ will spotlight Diamond open access journals that we index, highlighting our ongoing efforts to enhance the visibility and impact of no-fee community-led journals worldwide
As the movement for equitable and inclusive scholarly publishing gains momentum, DOAJ remains a committed advocate and ally for Diamond open access.
#DOAJ #DiamondOA #ScholComm #OpenAccess #DIAMAS #CRAFTOA #ALMASI #OJS
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/15/doaj-and-diamond-our-focus-for-2025/
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/
Happening 23 April 12:00 UTC
Fourth in a series of EIFL webinars on using Open Journal Systems #OJS free and open source software for publishing scholarly journals with experts from #DOAJ and @PublicKnowledgeProject - there’s still time to register
#OpenAccess #OpenJournalSystems
https://eifl.net/events/increasing-visibility-oa-journal-content-ojs-and-doaj
Did you know #DOAJ has over 100 volunteers and every volunteer contributes their own experience to this role – this month we feature Mohammad Amini, Priya Rangra and Nataliia Kaliuzhna
#ScholComm #OpenAccess #DOAJVolunteers
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/04/03/doaj-volunteers-mohammad-priya-and-nataliia/
Call for nominations for DOAJ’s new Advisory Board.
The new advisory board will provide essential advice and guidance to DOAJ’s Foundation Board and the DOAJ team – deadline for nominations 30th April 2025.
#DOAJ #Advisory #DOAJFoundation #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/26/call-for-nominations-for-advisory-board-members/
DOAJ is moving to become a new legal entity, the DOAJ Foundation, securing sustainability by providing robust community governance and focussing on the core mission
#DOAJ #DOAJFoundation #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter
More details at https://blog.doaj.org/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/
@joshisanonymous
Bracketing the problem of deciding which journals are "prominent", we have a good answer from the Directory of Open Access Journals (#DOAJ, @DOAJ). As of today, it lists 21,452 #OpenAccess journals, of which 13,712 are #DiamondOA or charge no #APCs. Hence. 63.9% (≈ 64%) of DOAJ-listed journals charge no APCs.
#DOAJ Vacancy - we are now recruiting for a Managing Editor (Indonesia)
#DOAJEditor #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter #Indonesia
Details: https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/20/vacancy-managing-editor-indonesia-doaj-freelance/
Ende 2024 haben wir die #DOAJ gelistete #OA-Zeitschrift "#Chronotopos – A Journal of #Translation History" in die #OJS-Infrastruktur der @ubleipzig migriert. Im Interview für den UBL-Blog sprachen wir mit dem Redaktionsteam über die Erfahrungen bei der Zeitschriftenherausgabe im #OpenAccess, den Migrationsprozess und die Zukunftsvisionen für den neuen Zeitschriftenstandort an der @unileipzig: https://blog.ub.uni-leipzig.de/chronotopos-als-vorbild-fuer-diamond-open-access-publizieren/
#openscience
#DOAJ is a leading partner in the #ThinkCheckSubmit initiative (thinkchecksubmit.org)
We are delighted to see a blog post by Lorraine Estelle on the IFLA blog about the important work that TCS does in helping authors avoid questionable journals and books:
German speaking freelance Managing Editor (m/w/d), part time (up to 20 hours per week), working remotely | https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/14/vacancy-managing-editor-germany-freelance/ | https://bibliojobs.eu/stellenangebote/112683/
#bibliojobs
##AcademicChatter ##DOAJ ##scholcomms #JoinOurTeam #OpenAccess
Hello 2025! A year of opportunities as we expand our team, reestablish #DOAJ in Europe, relaunch our #Ambassador programme and rebuild the heart of our editorial review system
#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/
Did you know #DOAJ has over 100 volunteers and every volunteer contributes their own experience to this role – this month we feature Rasoul Zavaraqi Natalia Pamuła and Mario Alejandro Marin Uribe
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/10/doaj-volunteers-rasoul-natalia-and-mario/
Our Quality Team is central to maintaining levels of trust in our service. Team members conduct in-depth investigations into cases of concern. In 2024 alone, they dedicated more than 830 hours to over 470 investigations.
Two of the team, Cenyu and Paula, have written a blog post describing some of the trends they have noticed over the last 4 years:
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/02/13/inside-the-quality-team-part-2-key-trends-from-our-work/
@josir
Yes, it's been clear for a long time that #DOAJ doesn't include all #DiamondOA journals. Many of us have wished that DOAJ could cover them more comprehensively — or that others would do so.
Do you have examples of those non-DOAJ lists? Did you mean to include one more URLs?
Here are two that used to be more comprehensive. But I haven't used them for years and can't vouch for their current adequacy.
* the Jan Szczepanski list
--at Scribd
https://www.scribd.com/user/9138126/Jan-Szczepanski
--at EBSCO
https://www.ebsco.com/open-for-research/open-access/szczepanski-list
* the Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliotek (EZB) list
https://ezb.ur.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7%E2%8C%A9=en
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.
#DOAJ strives to meet the POSI Principles for #openinfrastructure and POSI is seeking your feedback on some proposed POSI 2.0 revisions to increase the principles' accessibility and inclusiveness.
On 20th February at 17:00 UTC, @OpenAlex and #DOAJ will give a joint webinar on our collaboration and how we help quality #openaccess journals achieve greater visibility and impact.
Find out more about the #OpenAlex webinar series:
https://help.openalex.org/hc/en-us/articles/24428492324631-Webinars
Register for the event here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QJTQwt1bQJmict1YftlpGA#/registration
