Global InformationDirectory of Open Access Journals information
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| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| URL | doaj |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2003 |
| Current status | Online |
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA).[1] It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals.[2]
The mission of DOAJ is to "increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language."[3]
In 2015, DOAJ launched a reapplication process based on updated and expanded inclusion criteria. At the end of the process (December 2017), close to 5,000 journals, out of the 11,600 indexed in May 2016, had been removed from their database, in majority for failure to reapply.[4][5][6]
Notwithstanding the substantial cleanup, the number of journals included in DOAJ has continued to grow, to reach 14,299 as of 3 March 2020.[7] As of December 2022,[update] the independent database contains more than 18,650 open access journals and 8,265,272 articles covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and the humanities.[3]
DOAJ provides a change log on Google Sheets that has been updated since March 2014 and identifies the journals added and the journals removed with the justification for the removal.[8]
Founder, Lars Bjørnshauge, announced his retirement in 2021 and from January 2022, DOAJ has a new Managing Director, Joanna Ball.[9]
- ^ "Infrastructure Services for Open Access". Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "Directory of Open Access Journals". doaj.org. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
- ^ a b "About". Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "The Reapplications project is officially complete". DAOJ blog. 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
- ^ Baker, Monya (2016-06-09). "Open-access index delists thousands of journals". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19871. S2CID 167862818. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
- ^ Marchitelli, Andrea; Galimberti, Paola; Bollini, Andrea; Mitchell, Dominic (January 2017). "Helping journals to improve their publishing standards: a data analysis of DOAJ new criteria effects". JLIS.it. 8 (1): 39–49. doi:10.4403/jlis.it-12052. Archived from the original on 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
- ^ "Directory of Open Access Journals". Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "DOAJ: journals added and removed". Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ Stoddard, Louise (2021-12-09). "New Managing Director Appointed at DOAJ". DOAJ News Service. Retrieved 2022-12-01.