Updates to the Guide to Applying – flipped journals, AI, quality criteria, and OA exceptions – DOAJ Blog

"As we announced in July, all updates to our guide to applying are being released quarterly. For this quarter, version 2.6:

1. We’ve clarified the wording on flipped journals, i.e., journals that move from closed to open access.
2. As I blogged about for Peer Review Week last month, we’ve added Best Practices for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated tools....
3. Following January’s Quality Team blog post by Cenyu and Paula, we’ve added our existing quality criteria to the guide. These additional criteria are used by the Quality Team when concerns about a journal or publisher’s quality or publishing practices arise during our regular review process or are raised by community members...
4. We’ve updated the type of open access section to clarify when non-open access content is allowed in an open access journal and how this should be handled. We give more detail in our Licensing & copyright page, including that..."