IFLA Policy and Advocacy Manager Claire McGuire
🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign
🔓 @ifla.org Claire McGuire and active involvement in the dissemination of climate research #libraries #ClimateReseach
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/d...
https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/15/call-for-volunteers/
📣 #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 👇
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/04/15/c...
Wording that says Quarterly Update, Guide to Applying, Version 2.8
📣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
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/04/13/u...
📢 We are excited to share that recordings and slides from the Diamond OA Policy Forum series are now available!
🎥 Missed a session or want to revisit key insights? You can now access the recordings and share it with your networks:
almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...
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🔶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
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/04/09/m...
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DOAJ Managing Director @joannaball.bsky.social 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
🔗 www.pubin.pt/3encontropub...
🌐 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) www.ouvrirlascience.fr/suivi-du-ref...
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🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign
🔓 @eifl.bsky.social Iryna Kuchma outlines steps we can take to make climate research accessible to all
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/d...
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🌐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
#PythonProgramming #APCs #DataClassiication #DataCleaning #MachineLearning
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/03/30/t...
💎 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 @wearelyrasis.bsky.social
🔗 www.tinyurl.com/mappingdoa
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What are conflicts of interest, and why do they matter? When submitting a journal article, authors are often asked to declare any conflicts of interest (COIs). The term can feel unclear or even intimidating. Our resource explains in clear language. bit.ly/4syM29n
⏰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
blog.doaj.org/de/2026/03/0...
⏰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.de we want to understand challenges for 💎 journals applying to #DOAJ
blog.doaj.org/2026/03/05/h...
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) 💎 @eudch.bsky.social
Head shots of DOAJ Managing Director Joanna Ball and DOAJ Head of Community and Communications Katrine Sundsbø
📢We’re heading to #UKSG2026!
#DOAJ's @joannaball.bsky.social and @katrinesundsbo.bsky.social will be attending the 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition
🗓️March 30-April 1
📌Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow
@uksg.bsky.social
🔗 www.uksg.org/events/confe...
📢 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: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📊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.de
Wir freuen uns sehr auf Ihre Rückmeldung
blog.doaj.org/de/2026/03/0...
⏰ 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
We’d love to hear from you! @dfg.de
🌍💎 Bringing together policymakers & funders at the 2nd cross-regional Diamond OA Policy Forum
✅Regional Diamond OA developments
✅Cross-regional synergies and differences
✅Breakout discussions in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish
👉️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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.bsky.social #DOAJ
oajournals-toolkit.org
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🌐DOAJ Ambassador for West Africa Oluchi Okere is presenting at the @wacren.bsky.social 2026 Conference
The theme for the annual conference is: 'Connected Futures: Advancing Africa's Digital Sovereignty Through Open Collaboration' #WACREN2026
📅23-27 March
📌Banjul, The Gambia
wacren2026.wacren.net
Partnership renewed with Crossref and DOAJ logos
📢 Renewed partnership: @doaj.bsky.social and Crossref focus on equitable scholarly infrastructure
Our collaboration will focus on improving #metadata quality and expanding support for journals in low- and middle-income countries.
Read the full announcement: https://doi.org/10.64000/87w4t-1ed12
Welcome to DOAJ!
▪️Do you work with #OpenAccess journals? Are you setting up a new journal? Are you training a team?
▪️The OA Journals Toolkit should be your start point: oajournals-toolkit.org
▪️A free resource from @doaj.bsky.social and @oaspa.bsky.social
Are you using the Toolkit? Let us know how!
#OAJournals
⏰Reminder⏰
The 1st regional Diamond Open Access Policy Forum Latin America will take place next week on 20 March, 10:00–11:30 CST.
✅Register: u2l.fr/pyhenu
💬 Discussion language: Spanish & Portuguese
📢Renewed partnership: DOAJ and Crossref focus on equitable scholarly metadata and global support @crossref.bsky.social @ginsta.bsky.social @joannaball.bsky.social
#DOAJ #OpenAccess #Crossref #metadata #LMIC
See details blog.doaj.org/2026/03/12/r...
Monica Granados, Creative Commons’ Director of Open Science
🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign
🔓We asked @monsauce.bsky.social @creativecommons.bsky.social about #OA climate research
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/d...
Headshots of Martina Dvořáková and Radek Gomola
🪩Making OA journals visible: How your journal can shine with OJS Diamond plugins
🪩@martidvorako.bsky.social editor at Masaryk University Press, introduces the #DiamondOA plugins @pkp.sfu.ca @craft-oa.bsky.social @eudch.bsky.social
#DOAJ #OpenAccess #indexing
🪩 blog.doaj.org/2026/03/10/m...
The question of how to sustain open infrastructure is a perennial one. @doaj.bsky.social has launched a premium metadata service. Those organisations that make large-scale commercial use of DOAJ’s metadata services will now directly contribute to DOAJ's sustainability