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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 @christof@fedihum.org
#PythonProgramming #APCs #DataClassiication #DataCleaning #MachineLearning
🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/30/teaching-python-programming-with-doajs-journal-dataset/
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/
🏷️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@mastodon.social
🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/
RE: @BarcelonaDORI@mastodon.social
🌐 Still time to register for this Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information webinar - includes speakers from @crossref@mastodon.online DOAJ @datacite@openbiblio.social
🌐 This session will emphasize that sustaining open infrastructure requires collective learning, coordination, and long-term commitment
📢Renewed partnership: DOAJ and Crossref focus on equitable scholarly metadata and global support
@crossref@mastodon.online
#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/
📢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.
🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign
🔓We asked Monica Granados @creativecommons@mastodon.social #OA climate research
🔗https://blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/doaj-sustains-the-open-climate-campaigns-legacy-with-new-tagging/
📣 #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/
🌐 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/
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
🪩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@mastodon.social
#DOAJ #OpenAccess #indexing
🪩 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/03/10/making-open-access-journals-visible-how-your-journal-can-shine-with-ojs-diamond-plugins/
📊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@wisskomm.social
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/
🌐 From awareness to collective investment: Supporting and sustaining open infrastructure
At the @MuninConf@mastodon.world 2025, @SCOSSfunding@mastodon.social co-hosted a workshop with #DOAJ and Episciences
📌 Read more: https://scoss.org/from-awareness-to-collective-investment-supporting-and-sustaining-open-infrastructure/
🌎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/
💎 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
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.
RE: @DOAJ@masto.ai
⏰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@wisskomm.social 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/
📢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
RE: @DOAJ@masto.ai
⏰ 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@wisskomm.social
We’d love to hear from you!
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@mastodon.social
🗓️ 23-27 March
📌 Banjul, The Gambia
Details: https://wacren2026.wacren.net/
📊#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/
📣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/
🔶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/
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/
🌎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/
⏰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@wisskomm.social
https://blog.doaj.org/de/2026/03/05/help-improve-support-for-diamond-open-access-journals-in-germany/
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
📢 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
