Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Basic Criteria – Updated and Rewritten in Plain English
From DOAJ News:
We are rewriting our website in plain English so that it is easy for our users, especially publishers, to understand what is required for a good quality and complete application.
These are first steps to us:
- becoming even more open and transparent;
- offering a greatly improved user experience for a new application form;
- starting a localisation project to offer elements of the website in languages other than English.
Today the basic criteria are mixed with the advanced criteria on a very wordy page and in our application form. It is hard to tell which is which. The advanced criteria are only required for a journal wishing to get the DOAJ Seal.
This leads many to believe that a journal has to have the Seal to be indexed in DOAJ. This is not true.
Direct to Complete Post/Review Criteria
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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