Abstract

Abstract This article gives an overview of the history and current status of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). After a brief historical overview, DOAJ policies regarding open access, intellectual property rights and questionable publishers are explained in detail. The larger part of this article is a much requested explanation on how DOAJ uses its new set of criteria for the evaluation of open access journals and the rationale behind choosing the seven extra criteria that qualify for the DOAJ Seal. A final section is devoted to the extended possibilities that DOAJ will be offering shortly to scholars and publishers for searching the database and for uploading metadata. The result is a renewed DOAJ that offers a more robust platform, a more stable database and enhanced services to allow the upload and collection of metadata.

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  • A POTTED HISTORY OF DOAJ [4]In June 2015, the Committee on Publication Ethics, the Originally, the criteria for admission were not as strict as theyDirectory of Open Access Journals, the Open Access Scholarly are today

  • This article gives an overview of the history and current status and DOAJ has become more firmly rooted in the heart of open of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

  • It is hard to believe that, historical overview, DOAJ policies regarding open access, since DOAJ launched on its new platform at the end of 2012, intellectual property rights and questionable publishers are the database can have changed and matured so much in so explained in detail

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Criteria for open access and publishing

Published online: 16 November 2015 (version 1) Cite as: Olijhoek et al ScienceOpen Research 2015 (DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-EDU.AMHUHV.v1) Reviewing status: Please note that this article is under continuous review. For the current reviewing status and the latest referee’s comments please click here or scan the QR code at the end of this article. Secondary discipline: Communication networks, Databases, Human-computer-interaction Keywords: Metadata, Open access publishing, BOAI definitions, Questionable publishers, DOAJ criteria, DOAJ SEAL, Licensing and copyright, DOAJ API, Creative Commons, Best publishing practice

Open Access to scholarly publications has grown and matured
INTRODUCTION
An additional phenomenon that has been causing concern
Questionable publishers profit on the publish and perish
Transparency and Best Practice and the recently launched
Content licensing and copyright issues
We do accept journals where copyright has to be transferred
DOAJ with minor contributions and all the major publishers
PUBLISHING NOTES
Findings
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