2020-09-30 - By: Tom Gilson  (Associate Editor, Against the Grain)  and Katina Strauch  (Editor, Against the Grain)  Lars Bjørnshauge ATG:  Lars, you founded the -

They try getting indexed on DOAJ and other websites to give websites an air of authenticity

Walt Crawford is prolific! As if his first tranche of mega-analysis wasn’t enough work for him, he has released an update to The Gold Open Access Landscape 2011-2014, which I wrote about prev…

The most comprehensive index of open access journals, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), reviewed its inclusion criteria, in view of allegations of the presence of predatory journals. This restructuring will lead to more than 3,000 journals to be removed from the database. DOAJ, besides advocating Open Access, established, in collaboration with COPE, OASPA and WAME, a code of principles and good practices in scientific publishing. … Read More →

Presentation on how DOAJ is striving to increase the transparency and credibility of open access publishing throughout research communities. Presentation at th…