Large Scale Publisher Survey reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing – News Service

"In 2013, only 35% of respondents used DOIs; in 2018 this has jumped to 73%*. However, when publishers were asked why they did not use DOIs the 5 most common words given in responses are: implementing, cost, funding, financial, paying....

The number of respondents providing article metadata to DOAJ has increased from 55% in 2013 to 84% in 2018. When asked which format of metadata publishers would like to supply to DOAJ, 46% said they preferred CrossRef, while 8% said JATS. However, 42% of all 2018 respondents said that they didn’t understand what a metadata format was so there is much work to do here! ...

Our respondents said that the top 3 benefits of being indexed in DOAJ in 2018 are:

1. Certification that our journal(s) are quality publications
2. Increased readership
3. Increased scientific impact

In 2013, it was:

1. Increased visibility of content
2. Certification of the journals
3. Prestige

74% of respondents said that submissions had definitely or maybe increased since being indexed in DOAJ while over 70% thought that traffic had increased to their sites....

62% of respondents said that they didn’t have to deal with competition from predatory publishers or journals. There was no equivalent question in 2013. ...

86% of respondents said that in their countries researchers are evaluated on where they publish rather than what they publish. There was no equivalent question in 2013...."