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• Post #1622482

  🏷️Introducing the Publication Facts Label: Another tool in your research integrity toolkit 🧰 In this guest blog post, open research consultant Alice Medows introduces the Publication Facts Label (PFL) by the @PublicKnowledgeProject 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/

• Post #1563813

  🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign IFLA's Claire McGuire and active involvement in the dissemination of climate research #libraries #ClimateReseach 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/doaj-sustains-the-open-climate-campaigns-legacy-with-new-tagging/

• Post #1170456

  📣 #DOAJ Call for volunteers We are now recruiting volunteers who ideally have a scholarly communications background, preferably in Library Sciences, and preferably based in Asia #OpenAccess #BestPractice #volunteers #ScholarlyComms See our latest blog for details 👇 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/15/call-for-volunteers/

• Post #1161496

  It's Friday, and it's time for #DOAJ in numbers: We index 21,315 #openaccess #journals from 136 countries and in 89 languages. 13,701 of those journals don't charge *any fees at all*. We index 10,762,762 article records. We are the most inclusive and diverse index of quality-controlled #OA journals in the world. https://doaj.org/ #scholcomm #DiamondOA

• Post #1117310

  DOAJ Ambassador for West Africa Oluchi Okere is presenting at the WACREN 2026 Conference. The theme for the 2026 annual conference is: 'Connected Futures: Advancing Africa's Digital Sovereignty Through Open Collaboration' #WACREN2026 @WACREN 🗓️ 23-27 March 📌 Banjul, The Gambia Details: https://wacren2026.wacren.net/

• Post #1117309

  Do you work with #OpenAccess #journals? Are you setting up a new journal? Are you training a team? 🧰 The OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new and established #OA journals to navigate the rapidly changing scholarly publishing landscape #OASPA #DOAJ https://oajournals-toolkit.org

• Post #1117308

  RE: https://masto.ai/@DOAJ/116174886526452839 ⏰ Still time to complete this survey As part of our collaboration with the German Research Foundation (DFG) we want to understand challenges for no fee journals from Germany in applying to DOAJ @dfg_public We’d love to hear from you!

• Post #1117307

  📢 DOAJ Webinar Improving Journal Quality and Visibility though DOAJ Standards 🔹Registration is free, attendees from Nepal and Bangladesh are prioritised 📆 23 March 2026 ⏲️ 2-3pm (IST) Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SUv-U-mzTJG2cSkkr13fww

• Post #1117306

  📢We’re heading to #UKSG2026 DOAJ Managing Director Joanna Ball and Head of Community and Communications Katrine Sundsbø will be attending the UKSG 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition. 🗓️March 30-April 1 📌Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow 🔗 https://www.uksg.org/events/conference26/

• Post #1117305

  The #DiamondOA momentum continues. This project aims to establish a transparent, sustainable, and high-quality open access scholarly publishing ecosystem in Europe by leveraging and expanding the services of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) https://edch.eu/new-shield-diamond-open-access-europe-launching-aegis-oa-project

• Post #1117304

  RE: https://masto.ai/@DOAJ/116252414114699210 ⏰Survey closes April 7 Are you involved in running or supporting a DFG-funded #DiamondOA journal or another Diamond journal in Germany that is not (yet) indexed in DOAJ? In collaboration with @dfg_public we want to understand challenges for 💎 journals applying to #DOAJ https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/

• Post #1117303

  ⏰Teilnahme an DOAJ-Umfrage zu Diamond OA noch bis 7. April möglich Liebe Kolleg*innen, ich möchte Sie freundlich daran erinnern, dass die Teilnahme an der DOAJ-Umfrage noch bis zum 7. April möglich ist. Vielen Dank für Ihre Unterstützung! Viele Grüße @dfg_public https://blog.doaj.org/de/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/

• Post #1117302

  💎 Diamond Survey 💎 Lyrasis, in partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the California Digital Library have launched a national survey to better understand the US #DiamondOA ecosystem #ScholarlyCommunication #LibraryPublishing 🔗 www.tinyurl.com/mappingdoa

• Post #1117300

  🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign 🔓 EIFL's Iryna Kuchma outlines steps we can take to make climate research accessible to all 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/doaj-sustains-the-open-climate-campaigns-legacy-with-new-tagging/

• Post #1117299

  🌐 Visualisations of French journals indexed in DOAJ As a continuation of the Mir@bel2022 project, Mir@bel offers a visualisation page that allows tracking the indexing of French open access journals in #DOAJ 🔗 Details (in French) https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/suivi-du-referencement-des-revues-francaises-dans-le-doaj-directory-of-open-access-journals/

• Post #1117296

  DOAJ Managing Director Joanna Ball is keynote speaker at the upcoming 3º Encontro PUB IN (3rd PUB IN Meeting), focused on journals and scientific communication for open science #OpenScience #OpenAccess #DOAJ 📅16-17 April 📍Coimbra, Portugal 🔗 https://www.pubin.pt/3encontropubin/

• Post #1117295

  🔶Meet the Team! Brendan O'Connell, DOAJ’s Platform Manager With a unique background as both a librarian and a software engineer, Brendan guides development priorities while balancing the needs of all DOAJ users #AIBots #DiamondOA #OpenInfrastructure #SocialJustice 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/09/meet-the-doaj-team-platform-manager-brendan-oconnell/

• Post #1117294

  📣All updates to the Guide to Applying are released quarterly ▶️Version 2.8 In this update we include a revised appeals process, a new name for the Quality team/criteria, journal transfers to a new publisher and a few wording changes #BestPractice #QualityCriteria 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/13/updates-to-the-guide-to-applying-appeals-integrity-and-ethics-and-wording/

• Post #1028498

  🌐 From awareness to collective investment: Supporting and sustaining open infrastructure At the @MuninConf 2025, @SCOSSfunding co-hosted a workshop with #DOAJ and Episciences 📌 Read more: https://scoss.org/from-awareness-to-collective-investment-supporting-and-sustaining-open-infrastructure/

• Post #1001237

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@BarcelonaDORI/116085655311388847 🌐 Still time to register for this Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information webinar - includes speakers from @crossref DOAJ @datacite 🌐 This session will emphasize that sustaining open infrastructure requires collective learning, coordination, and long-term commitment

• Post #948568

  🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign 🔓We asked Monica Granados @creativecommons #OA climate research 🔗https://blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/doaj-sustains-the-open-climate-campaigns-legacy-with-new-tagging/

• Post #852738

  🌐Christof Schöch, University of Trier, details how the #DOAJ journal #dataset is used to teach #Python programming for the Machine Learning in a Digital Humanities Master's program @christof #PythonProgramming #APCs #DataClassiication #DataCleaning #MachineLearning 🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/30/teaching-python-programming-with-doajs-journal-dataset/

• Post #849733

  📢We’ve now indexed just over 22,000 journals. Thanks to the community who make this possible: our DOAJ team and Board members, Ambassadors, volunteer editors, supporters - and of course, all the journals that are and apply to be indexed And thank you to those who continue to use the index as a source of quality open access journals. #DOAJ #BestPractice #OpenAccess

• Post #845010

  📊#DOAJ Survey Are you involved in running or supporting a DFG-funded #DiamondOA journal or another Diamond OA journal in Germany that is not (yet) indexed in DOAJ? @dfg.de We’d love to hear from you! See our latest post for survey details: https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/

• Post #765550

  📢Renewed partnership: DOAJ and Crossref focus on equitable scholarly metadata and global support @crossref #DOAJ #OpenAccess #Crossref #metadata #LMIC See details https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/12/renewed-partnership-doaj-and-crossref-focus-on-equitable-scholarly-metadata-and-global-support/

• Post #703636

  📊Sind Sie an der Herausgabe oder Unterstützung einer von der DFG geförderten Diamond-OA-Zeitschrift beteiligt oder einer anderen #Diamond-OA -Zeitschrift in Deutschland, die (noch) nicht im #DOAJ indexiert ist? @dfg_public Wir freuen uns sehr auf Ihre Rückmeldung https://blog.doaj.org/de/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/

• Post #701303

  🪩Making OA journals visible: How your journal can shine with OJS Diamond plugins 🪩Martina Dvořáková, editor at Masaryk University Press, introduces the #DiamondOA plugins @PublicKnowledgeProject #DOAJ #OpenAccess #indexing 🪩 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/10/making-open-access-journals-visible-how-your-journal-can-shine-with-ojs-diamond-plugins/

• Post #529097

  Web scraping to train #LLMs has surged in the past few years, overwhelming #OpenAccess infrastructures like #DOAJ with bot traffic. DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O'Connell discusses how we’re responding to these challenges. 🤖 #AI #OpenInfrastructure #Chatbots https://blog.doaj.org/2026/01/26/open-access-vs-open-excess-doaj-and-ai-scraper-bots/