Announcing the DOAJ Advisory Board
We are pleased to announce the formation of the DOAJ Advisory Board, an important new part of our governance structure, which supplements the Foundation Board launched earlier this year.| DOAJ Blog
This post is a summary of the graduation research project undertaken by Esraa Kamal, Esraa Abo El Magd, Rawan Ashraf and Yasmine Essam – senior students of the Department of Libraries, Archives, and Information Science at Cairo University in Egypt. The research evaluated DOAJ as an information retrieval system and focused on search and recall...| DOAJ Blog
We are pleased to announce the formation of the DOAJ Advisory Board, an important new part of our governance structure, which supplements the Foundation Board launched earlier this year.| DOAJ Blog
In this guest post, Donna Coventry and Luqman Hayes discuss the value of Tuwhera, an open access platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at AUT (Auckland University of Technology) in Aotearoa, New Zealand.| DOAJ Blog
DOAJ has over 100 volunteers who contribute their time and skills to reviewing applications. We are grateful for the work that our volunteers do, as editors and associate editors, supporting Open Access principles at home, in their day-to-day work, and abroad. DOAJ volunteers come from all over the world, from a variety of backgrounds, and...| DOAJ Blog
You might use it every day. You might not even know that it exists. Either way, the partially manually-updated change log is a legacy item left over from a time when DOAJ’s metadata services didn’t contain any information about when journals were added to or withdrawn from the index. Users would consult the two lists...| DOAJ Blog
From 2025, any updates to the DOAJ Criteria in the Guide to Applying will be scheduled to quarterly updates. The change log at the end of the webpage tracks the version history of the criteria and also highlights the most recent changes to the criteria. Our previous update in March 2025 added revised information for...| DOAJ Blog
Matt Hodgkinson, Head of Editorial, DOAJ| DOAJ Blog
DOAJ is pleased to announce a new agreement with the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL) which will provide an easy route for 55 academic libraries across South Carolina to support DOAJ. There is a growing understanding amongst the US library community of the role libraries can play in providing financial support for community-led...| DOAJ Blog
You might have wondered how many people are behind the scenes at DOAJ and what they do. This blog post series will offer our community an opportunity to meet several of our team members and learn more about their roles and responsibilities. In this blog post, we will meet Matt Hodgkinson, Head of Editorial. Hello...| DOAJ Blog
In this post, Lorraine Estelle from Think. Check. Submit. details the constant threat of untrustworthy publishers and announces the launch of a new Spanish-language video designed to communicate effective checking strategies for researchers submitting their work.| DOAJ Blog
We are thrilled to welcome our new DOAJ Ambassadors for West Africa and Brazil! DOAJ Ambassadors play a vital role in connecting with local communities, promoting open access and best practices in scholarly publishing in their regions.| DOAJ Blog
Throughout 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.| DOAJ Blog
