tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/4446/feed_itemsItems tagged with oa.doaj in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)2023-06-29T10:52:01-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/80112942023-06-29T09:36:13-04:002023-06-29T10:52:01-04:00AGRICULTURE JOURNALS IN DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY (2003-2021) Abstract: In this paper, 791 agriculture journals covering various fields of agriculture from 2003-2021 by the directory of open access journals have been analyzed. It has been observed that maximum numbers of 107 journals were published during the year 2017. The journals published in English language got the top place and Indonesia has the highest number of publications. The paper also analyzed various parameters like Country-wise, Particular Year-wise, and Language-wise, etc.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/80078122023-06-27T15:52:34-04:002023-06-27T21:37:31-04:00Home - OA Journals Toolkit"The Open Access Journals Toolkit is a freely accessible resource providing guidance and further reading materials to support new and established open access journals in navigating the rapidly changing landscape of open access publishing....
The Open Access Journals Toolkit covers topics across the journal development lifecycle and everyday operation, such as journal creation, costs, staffing, policy development, through to indexing and key technical aspects....
The Open Access Journals Toolkit has been designed to support a range of users including publishers, editors, authors, technical providers, reviewers, researchers, and librarians, with the tools needed to support a range of regional initiatives and publishing efforts....
In 2022, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) held a consultation with a group of international open access experts, journal managers and editors, with support from Research Consulting. This investigative work looked into the potential need for an online resource to support new and established open access journals in navigating the rapidly changing landscape of open access publishing. A majority of contributors agreed that this would be a valuable asset, and helped define the early shape of the Open Access Journals Toolkit...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/79726982023-06-13T03:29:04-04:002023-06-13T11:52:16-04:00An offer the journal couldn’t refuse | Nordic Perspectives on Open ScienceThe article describes a two-year project (running from 2021 to 2022) that worked on getting Danish Open Access journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The project was run in partnership by Copenhagen Business School (CBS Library), Royal Danish Library and Aalborg University Library, in close collaboration with DOAJ. All of the journals that participated are hosted on the libraries’ Open Journal Systems (OJS). In this article the authors demonstrate some of the challenges the journals and the project group faced in the inclusion process and in the assistance the project provided, as well as learning outcomes and perspectives.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/75544822023-05-08T08:45:50-04:002023-05-08T10:28:04-04:00Registration is open for DOAJ’s first webinar: ‘Open’- and you are all invited. – DOAJ News Service"This event is built around the theme ‘Open’ and it will be a conversation with three guests chosen for their experience, aspirations for the future, views on progress towards OA as default, and their knowledge of global open access publishing. Abeni Wickham, a rising star and important new voice in scholarly communications, will moderate the conversation.
The event is free and open to everyone. If you are unable to join the event on the day, you can watch a recording of the event that will be made available afterwards. You can also follow on social media: #DOAJat20...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/75291852023-05-04T13:51:40-04:002023-05-04T15:34:57-04:00New agreements open additional support to Directory of Open Access Journals in Canada | STM Publishing News"Two new agreements between DOAJ, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and the Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries – Conseil des bibliothèques postsecondaires de l’Atlantique (CAAL-CBPA), have been announced today. These agreements will provide a vital boost to the sustainability of key open access infrastructure, essential to the future of science and research in Canada and around the world.
CRKN has long been a strong supporter of DOAJ and encompasses seventy-nine academic libraries and five research institutions in Canada. CAAL-CBPA includes top tier research and teaching libraries in Atlantic Canada...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/74882992023-04-28T08:57:19-04:002023-04-28T13:43:28-04:00EIFL support energizes Ethiopia OA journals sector | EIFL"With support from EIFL, Addis Ababa University Libraries (AAUL) has increased access to and visibility of research from academic institutions across Ethiopia by upgrading the national open access publishing platform, Ethiopian Journals Online (EJOL), and adding 21 new journals from 10 institutions to the platform.
As part of the ‘Enhancing Ethiopian Journals Online’ project, AAUL has improved the look and feel of EJOL, with customized pages for each journal, including updated journal profiles and useful information for authors and reviewers (editorial policies, author guidelines, reviewer guidelines).
By configuring editorial workflows, the project has made the platform more efficient, and integration of DOIs has made journals and articles easier to locate.
The project team also provided training for librarians, journal editors and editorial staff to familiarize them with the upgraded journals platform and its new functionalities.
In addition, 20 journal editors took part in workshops on the use of the publishing software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), and the eligibility standards and criteria required for indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Journal editors also received journal policy templates."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/74838542023-04-26T10:12:44-04:002023-04-26T13:34:32-04:00DOAJ@20Registration form for an event to celebrate the 20th birthday of the DOAJ.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/74838532023-04-26T10:11:21-04:002023-04-26T13:34:37-04:00DOAJ at 20 – DOAJ"We are celebrating 20 years of being an important part of open infrastructure with a year-long campaign throughout 2023, and we want to invite you to be a part of our celebrations!
We are holding three events for our community around the themes: 'Open', 'Global', and 'Trusted'. Details about these events and how you can join them will be available on this page. We will also share interviews with key individuals who have shaped DOAJ into what it is today.
Further down the page is a historical timeline to give you a full overview of DOAJ’s important milestones from 2003 to today...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/74821592023-04-25T14:11:18-04:002023-04-25T19:04:48-04:00Missing a golden opportunity? An analysis of publication trends by income level in the Directory of Open Access Journals 1987–2020 - Druelinger - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online LibraryAbstract: The growing prevalence of the gold open access model can exacerbate the monoculture of research and inequality in knowledge production. This study examines publication trends in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) journals by countries’ income level from 1987 to 2020. By combining article metadata from journals listed in the DOAJ with World Bank country income data, this analysis examines the trends visible in plots of historical open access publication data. In 2020, the number of articles published in DOAJ journals by authors affiliated with high-income countries exceeds the sum of the other income categories. Article processing charge waivers seem to have more impact on high- and low-income countries than middle-income countries. The results show that the gold open access model has not been able to improve the extremely low number of open access articles from low-income regions. In addition, authors in middle-income countries publish in gold open access DOAJ journals at lower rates than authors based in other economic regions. The gold open access model is disadvantageous to researchers outside of high-income countries, highlighting the importance of supporting the diamond open access model as a potential means of improving global equity and epistemic diversity in knowledge production.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/74552472023-04-14T11:26:03-04:002023-04-14T14:51:33-04:00Advancing Open Access In Scholarly Publishing: Increasing DOAJ’s Coverage in Northern Africa | May 10, 2023 | Webinar Registration"1-hour webinar hosted by the Forum for Open Research in MENA (F.O.R.M.) in collaboration with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). **Limited Seats Available** **French Language Presentation** In this 1-hour webinar, Professor Kamel Belhamel (Managing editor of DOAJ), will explore the open access landscape in Northern Africa. The first half of the webinar will look at the barriers faced by scholarly publications when looking to develop and implement open access publishing practices. In the second half of this webinar, Professor Kamel will discuss the benefits for open access journals of being indexed in DOAJ, give some tips on DOAJ evaluation metrics, and explain what editorial boards can do to maximise their chances of acceptance into the index...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/74421652023-04-06T09:35:23-04:002023-04-06T19:55:31-04:00Publishers Learning And Community Exchange | theplace.discourse.group "Welcome to the Publishers Learning and Community Exchange. Things are best achieved by working together. Here at the Publishers Learning and Community Exchange we aim to make it easier for you to find solutions to problems, access the most relevant information, gain a better understanding of publishing processes and standards, and share experiences and best practices.
We realize that the sheer number of agencies involved in regulating and preserving scholarly content is in itself a challenge, and can be very confusing for new organizations. We envisaged the PLACE as a ‘one stop shop’ to information to support publishers in adopting best practices the industry developed.
We also hope that by setting the information service as a forum, we will encourage open exchange with publishers who aspire to do things right. Please browse through the topics of interest. Please ask questions in response to posts already existing on this forum, and by starting new topics within any of the forum categories (you will need to register as a user to do that).
Please don’t hesitate to introduce yourself briefly to colleagues in this community and read others’ introductions...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/74421642023-04-06T09:32:33-04:002023-04-06T19:55:36-04:00Introducing The Publishers Learning And Community Exchange (PLACE) | OASPA, April 5, 2023"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. It has been co-developed by four organisations – Crossref, DOAJ, Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA). When OASPA recently asked our Scholar Publisher members if they needed publishing support, 70% said that they did. They also said they seek connection with other scholar publishers...."
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/73196352023-03-30T08:30:53-04:002023-03-30T09:12:47-04:00Help us understand open access Diamond and institutional publishingtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/71117862023-03-07T08:39:21-05:002023-03-07T12:26:32-05:00New filter: author retains all rights – DOAJ News Service"Earlier today, we released an update to our search interface to provide users with an author retains all rights filter.
There are 7154 journals in DOAJ where the author pays no fees and retains all rights.
There are 3400 journals in DOAJ where the author pays no fees, retains all rights and the content is licensed with a CC BY license...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/71011172023-03-01T09:55:54-05:002023-03-01T10:53:20-05:00WARNING DOAJ Publications – DOAJ News Service"There is a website lurking on the WWW from an outfit that calls itself ‘DOAJ Publications’ or ‘Doaj publisher’. They have a Twitter account too.
Please note that this company is not affiliated with us in any way nor sanctioned by us.
We have emailed the company to ask them to stop using the DOAJ name as we think it is being used to deliberately mislead people.
If you can help raise awareness by sharing this message, we’d be grateful."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70942402023-02-26T09:48:57-05:002023-02-26T11:15:51-05:00How open access diamond journals comply with industry standards exemplified by Plan S technical requirementsAbstract: Purpose: This study investigated how well current open access (OA) diamond journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and a survey conform to Plan S requirements, including licenses, peer review, author copyright, unique article identifiers, digital archiving, and machine-readable licenses.
Method: Data obtained from DOAJ journals and surveyed journals from mid-June to mid-July 2020 were analyzed for a variety of Plan S requirements. The results were presented using descriptive statistics.
Results: Out of 1,465 journals that answered, 1,137 (77.0%) reported compliance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) principles. The peer review types used by OA diamond journals were double-blind (6,339), blind (2,070), peer review (not otherwise specified, 1,879), open peer review (42), and editorial review (118) out of 10,449 DOAJ journals. An author copyright retention policy was adopted by 5,090 out of 10,448 OA diamond journals (48.7%) in DOAJ. Of the unique article identifiers, 5,702 (54.6%) were digital object identifiers, 58 (0.6%) were handles, and 14 (0.1%) were uniform resource names, while 4,675 (44.7%) used none. Out of 1,619 surveyed journals, the archiving solutions were national libraries (n=170, 10.5%), Portico (n=67, 4.1%), PubMed Central (n=15, 0.9%), PKP PN (n=91, 5.6%), LOCKSS (n=136, 8.4%), CLOCKSS (n=87, 5.4%), the National Computing Center for Higher Education (n=6, 0.3%), others (n=69, 4.3%), no policy (n=855, 52.8%), and no reply (n=123, 7.6%). Article-level metadata deposition was done by 8,145 out of 10,449 OA diamond journals (78.0%) in DOAJ.
Conclusion: OA diamond journals’ compliance with industry standards exemplified by the Plan S technical requirements was insufficient, except for the peer review type.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70939272023-02-26T09:15:25-05:002023-02-26T11:18:26-05:00How open access diamond journals comply with industry standards exemplified by Plan S technical requirements
Purpose:
This study investigated how well current open access (OA) diamond journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and a survey conform to Plan S requirements, including licenses, peer review, author copyright, unique article identifiers, digital archiving, and machine-readable licenses.
Method:
Data obtained from DOAJ journals and surveyed journals from mid-June to mid-July 2020 were analyzed for a variety of Plan S requirements. The results were presented using descriptive statistics.
Results:
Out of 1,465 journals that answered, 1,137 (77.0%) reported compliance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) principles. The peer review types used by OA diamond journals were double-blind (6,339), blind (2,070), peer review (not otherwise specified, 1,879), open peer review (42), and editorial review (118) out of 10,449 DOAJ journals. An author copyright retention policy was adopted by 5,090 out of 10,448 OA diamond journals (48.7%) in DOAJ. Of the unique article identifiers, 5,702 (54.6%) were digital object identifiers, 58 (0.6%) were handles, and 14 (0.1%) were uniform resource names, while 4,675 (44.7%) used none. Out of 1,619 surveyed journals, the archiving solutions were national libraries (n=170, 10.5%), Portico (n=67, 4.1%), PubMed Central (n=15, 0.9%), PKP PN (n=91, 5.6%), LOCKSS (n=136, 8.4%), CLOCKSS (n=87, 5.4%), the National Computing Center for Higher Education (n=6, 0.3%), others (n=69, 4.3%), no policy (n=855, 52.8%), and no reply (n=123, 7.6%). Article-level metadata deposition was done by 8,145 out of 10,449 OA diamond journals (78.0%) in DOAJ.
Conclusion:
OA diamond journals’ compliance with industry standards exemplified by the Plan S technical requirements was insufficient, except for the peer review type.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70815052023-02-18T10:41:11-05:002023-02-18T17:05:34-05:00Analysis of DOAJ-Registered Open Access Journals in Asian CountriesAbstract: This study aims to understand the characteristics of Asian OA journals and to identify differences by the countries. 3,103 DOAJ-registered OA journals from 21 Asian countries as of 2020 were selected and analyzed from various perspectives using correspondence and correlation analysis. The results revealed that Indonesia had the most DOAJ-registered open access journals, followed by Iran and India. An APC was not charged by 70% of journals, but this varied greatly by country. Meanwhile, as a result of comparing DOAJ-registered Asian journals with international citation database listed journals, 11% of journals were listed on Scopus and only 2.6% and 0.1% were listed on SCIE and SSCI, which is represents less than half of the global level. In addition, although there are many free to read local journals in China, Japan, and Korea, the number of OA journals registered in DOAJ is relatively small. Therefore, it is difficult to say that the progress of OA in local journals is fast even if the country’s global research competitiveness is high.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70735192023-02-15T12:25:16-05:002023-02-16T11:55:48-05:00Research funders supporting DOAJ’s future"DOAJ is currently supported by several research funders who recognise the central role of DOAJ in enhancing visibility and discoverability of research worldwide and its role in the delivery of Plan S. These funders help to share some of the operational costs of DOAJ, an important acknowledgement of the critical need to secure the organization’s future independence and visibility of global open access research. ...
Although 27 research funders are signed up to Plan-S, only six currently support DOAJ: Denmark – Agency for Science and HE, Austria – FWF, Norway – NSD, Sweden – Vetenskapsrådet, Finland – TSV, Netherlands...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70394772023-02-13T08:26:20-05:002023-02-13T08:53:21-05:00OASPA and DOAJ Announce the Launch of an Open Access Journals Toolkit
The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of the Open Access (OA) Journals Toolkit, scheduled for launch in the second half of 2023. Research Consulting is supporting them in managing the Toolkit development process as well as in liaising with an expert Editorial Board.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70072572023-02-11T15:48:15-05:002023-02-11T16:18:50-05:00Digital Archiving Policies of Central European Journals Registered in the Directory of Open Access JournalsAbstract: This paper examines digital archiving policies of open access (OA) electronic scholarly journals in Central Europe. The research sample consists of 1589 journals from nine Central European countries registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Results show that of the 1589 journals, 69% of them have an archiving policy. In terms of the number of indexed journals, Poland ranks first with 592 journals. Switzerland is at the forefront of digital archiving with 89% of archived journals. It was also found that Portico and national libraries are the most widely used archives, and that 19% of the preserved journals are archived in more than one archive. A preliminary analysis was also conducted to investigate the possible existence of a relationship between journal rank and digital archiving. The results show a higher number of JCR indexed titles, as well as a higher ranking, among archived journals. The paper also compares the status of archiving policies among Asian and Central European countries. The results reveal that archived journals are significantly more represented in Central European countries.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/69830492023-02-10T09:06:24-05:002023-02-10T09:12:13-05:00Project JASPER: a progress report – DOAJ News Service"Project JASPER was announced on World Preservation Day in November 2020.
The initiative was launched by DOAJ, CLOCKSS, Internet Archive, ISSN International Centre (Keepers Registry) and Public Knowledge Project to address the problem of open access journals disappearing from the web.
So, where are we as we start 2023?
We have developed the DOAJ interface so that indexed publishers can opt in to preservation at the push of a button.
DOAJ and CLOCKSS have signed an agreement to remove some of the paperwork formerly required from each publisher, thereby streamlining the process.
There is a human support system in place, so these publishers have a friendly and streamlined journey – this crosses all the partner organizations and has been surprisingly challenging to orchestrate.
The questionnaire we use to assess journals wanting to be part of JASPER is now available in 3 languages: Arabic, English, and Spanish. We’re hoping to add more languages soon.
A technical pipeline exists so that content and structured metadata swish seamlessly from DOAJ into Internet Archive to one or more preservation services.
Nine journals have completed the process and have either delivered content and metadata or have been archived via Internet Archive’s automated web crawling.
Most importantly, we have been able to preserve scholar-led journals published in countries such as Croatia, Finland, Ireland, North Macedonia, Poland & Sri Lanka.
The project partners coordinated to produce a list of Ukrainian journals using OJS so that Internet Archive could ensure they were added to their web archiving initiative...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/66755262023-01-17T13:39:26-05:002023-01-17T13:49:44-05:00OASPA Open Access License Types"The charts show numbers of articles published in fully OA journals (left), and OA articles in hybrid journals (right), color-coded by license type. The most permissive licenses are at the bottom (CC BY), through to least permissive at the top, except for the tiny amount of CC0.
The volume of publications from OASPA continues to grow. Just under 4M articles were published by members in the period 2000-2021.
Just under 1M of the cumulative total were published in 2021, representing a growth of around 46% over the previous year and around one quarter of total recorded output.
The total number of articles reported by members has more than doubled since 2018, and grown around 20x over the last decade.
Publications in fully OA journals continue to dominate output, at around 4x that in hybrid.
CC BY licenses (Creative Commons attribution only) dominate. They account for almost three quarters of members’ total output, and for 81% of their output in fully OA journals...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/65850602023-01-12T12:53:25-05:002023-01-12T13:17:29-05:00Overview | OpenAIRE Research Graph Documentation"The OpenAIRE Research Graph is one of the largest open scholarly record collections worldwide, key in fostering Open Science and establishing its practices in the daily research activities. Conceived as a public and transparent good, populated out of data sources trusted by scientists, the Graph aims at bringing discovery, monitoring, and assessment of science back in the hands of the scientific community.
Imagine a vast collection of research products all linked together, contextualised and openly available. For the past years OpenAIRE has been working to gather this valuable record. It is a massive collection of metadata and links between scientific products such as articles, datasets, software, and other research products, entities like organisations, funders, funding streams, projects, communities, and data sources.
As of today, the OpenAIRE Research Graph aggregates hundreds of millions of metadata records (and links among them) from multiple data sources trusted by scientists, including:
Repositories registered in OpenDOAR or re3data.org (soon FAIRSharing.org)
Open Access journals registered in DOAJ
Crossref
Unpaywall
ORCID
Microsoft Academic Graph
Datacite..."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64755032023-01-06T10:19:57-05:002023-01-06T13:15:28-05:00A Short Introduction to DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) was founded by Lars Bjørnshauge in 2003; the current managing director is Joanna Ball. A cornerstone in the global Open Science landscape, DOAJ currently lists more than 18,000 peer-reviewed, strictly open access journals (Gold or Diamond). Dominic Mitchell, who has worked for DOAJ for the last ten years, explains how the indexing process is managed by a combination of volunteers and salaried staff like himself, how they work to exclude predatory journals from the list, and how DOAJ is financed. Furthermore, DOAJ is involved in several collaborative projects promoting high-quality scholarly publishing, including The Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (4th ed., 2022).