DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journal

Self-portrait

The Directory of Open Access Journals was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals and today contains ca. 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals.

DOAJ is a not-for-profit organisation managed by Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (Community Interest Company) based in the United Kingdom. DOAJ relies entirely on the voluntary donations of its members and on sponsorship monies received. In March 2016, DOAJ received a grant from the IDRC for a specific timed project tackling the improvement of open access journals in the Global South. Neither DOAJ or IS4OA receives grants or funding from any other source.

https://doaj.org/about

Description

Directory of Open Access Journals or DOAJ is a project that organizes and allows access to publications on science, technology, medicine and the humanities. The goal is to increase visibility and facilitate the use of high-quality scientific and scholarly open access publications.

DOAJ is a non-profit organization managed by the community-owned company Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. Based in United Kingdom. The board project started at Lund University in Sweden in 2003 with only 300 publications. The initiative intends to form a rigorous platform of articles committed to quality and "peer review". For this, strategies have been generated for review and established parameters such as the values set forth in Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

DOAJ es una organización sin fines de lucro gestionada por la compañía de interés comunitario Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. con base en Reino Unido. El proyecto de directorio inició en la Lund University, en Suecia, en el 2003 con tan solo 300 publicaciones. La iniciativa tiene la intención de conformar una plataforma rigurosa de artículos comprometidos con la calidad y el "peer review". Para esto se han generado estrategias de revisión y establecido parámetos como los valores planteados en Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

Actualmente se pueden consultar 11003 publicaciones y 20131296 artículos que han sido revisados por más de 100 voluntarios editoriales. El proyecto se enriquece con las colaboraciones y acceso a información de compañeros y organizaciones como: Redalyc, Scielo, Open Journal Systems y Cottage Labs LLC.

DOAJ funciona a través de tres tipos de membresías: publisher o editor, ordinary member o miembro ordinario y patrocinador o sponsor. Algunos de sus miembros editores son: Brazilian Journal in Health Promotion,International Journal of comparative Psychology, Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, Italian society of Victimology, entre muchos otros.

Las publicaciones han sido organizadas conforme al Library congress Classification dentro de temas que incluyen: Agricultura, educación, artes, lengua y literatura, medicina, leyes, Filosofía, Psicología y Religión, ciencias sociales y Tecnología.

Interview

Lars Bjørnshauge http://dpya.org/en/index.php/Lars_Bjørnshauge

Links

URL: https://doaj.org/

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://doaj.org/

Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals