🔸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: https://oajournals-toolkit.org

🔸A free resource from #OASPA and #DOAJ

#ScholarlyPublishing

🔸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: https://oajournals-toolkit.org

🔸A free resource from #OASPA and #DOAJ

#ScholarlyPublishing

Another significant milestone for #DOAJ

🇪🇸 We’ve now indexed just over 1000 journals from Spain

Thanks to the community who make this possible: our DOAJ team, Ambassadors, volunteer editors, supporters - and of course, all the journals that are and apply to be indexed
#BestPractice #OpenAccess #Spain

Another significant milestone for #DOAJ

🇪🇸 We’ve now indexed just over 1000 journals from Spain

Thanks to the community who make this possible: our DOAJ team, Ambassadors, volunteer editors, supporters - and of course, all the journals that are and apply to be indexed
#BestPractice #OpenAccess #Spain

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/

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/

📢 A comprehensive investigation of university published journals, - mapping and profiling journals globally (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and #DOAJ)

New article from @Maryna_Nazarovets @mikaellaakso and Zehra Taşkın

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05535-4

📢 A comprehensive investigation of university published journals, - mapping and profiling journals globally (including data from Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAlex and #DOAJ)

New article from @Maryna_Nazarovets @mikaellaakso and Zehra Taşkın

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05535-4

🌐Sámi dieđalaš áigečála (Sámi Scientific Journal) publishes exclusively in Sámi

🌐Editor-in-chief, Harald Gaski provides some information about the journal and the value of supporting and amplifying Indigenous voices

#DOAJ #DiamondOA #IndigenousResearch #ScholComms #sámiallaskuvla #samiuniversity #samiuniversityofappliedsciences #SamiskForskning

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/18/amplifying-indigenous-voices-sami-scientific-journal-included-in-doaj/

🌐Join @crossref and #DOAJ for the first webinar in the Building Trust through Metadata series

Senior Ambassador for Asia Vrushali Dandawate will be presenting 👏

#Crossref #metadata #ScholarlyPublishing #COPE

Registration details https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/3017600461341/WN_gu7EM5ktSBqE52Eha2PsfA#/registration

🌐Join @crossref and #DOAJ for the first webinar in the Building Trust through Metadata series

Senior Ambassador for Asia Vrushali Dandawate will be presenting 👏

#Crossref #metadata #ScholarlyPublishing #COPE

Registration details https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/3017600461341/WN_gu7EM5ktSBqE52Eha2PsfA#/registration

Update. Here's a published article making a cluster of false claims about #OpenAccess journals: "In the OA model…costs are…covered by Article Processing Charges ( #APCs) paid by the authors ( #GoldOA); in relatively rare cases, some funders cover the full costs of a journal ( #DiamondOA) to make it free for readers and authors alike."
https://www.ssph-journal.org/journals/international-journal-of-public-health/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608614/full

1. It claims that most OA journals charge APCs and that diamond OA journals are rare. But most OA journals do NOT charge APCs and diamond OA journals predominate.

Today the #DOAJ ( @DOAJ) lists 21,597 OA journals, of which 13,735 or 63.5% are diamond.
https://doaj.org/

2. It claims that at APC-based OA journals, APCs are (always) paid by authors. But while this tends to be true in the global south, even there it's only a tendency, not a universal truth. In the north, APCs are usually NOT paid by authors but by their funders or employers.
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9

3. There are many ways to fund a diamond or non-APC OA journals, not just by having funders cover their costs.

BTW, this piece is called a "commentary" and might not have been peer-reviewed.

In the rest of the piece, the authors complain about misunderstandings of their journal.