DOAJ—A Quality Control System for Open Access Publishers | MDPI Blog

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Summary:

"...We had the honor of discussing DOAJ with its founder Lars Bjørnshauge. Through our conversation, we were able to find out more about the aims of DOAJ and future perspectives. Here are Lars’ responses to our questions:

MDPI: DOAJ was one of the first organizations to use a quality control system to guarantee the content of open acess publications. How did the idea come about?

LB: The idea came up in the very early days after the BOAI-meeting. We had a Nordic Conference of Scholarly Communication in Lund, Autumn 2002, and an audience member suggested that we need a list of open access journals. As the host, I volunteered to create such a list, and we got a small grant from the Open Society Foundation to start it up...."

Link:

http://blog.mdpi.com/2018/01/08/doaj-a-quality-control-system-for-open-access-publishers/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.doaj oa.gold oa.infrastructure oa.discoverability oa.metadata oa.people oa.journals

Date tagged:

01/09/2018, 15:50

Date published:

01/09/2018, 10:50