1. DOAJ as a Gatekeeper for Quality Open Access Journals
Presentation at NEICON/ASEP Conference
May 17, 2016, Moscow
Editor-in-Chief DOAJ

2. And has been developing into:
DOAJ was founded at Lund University – launched May 2003 with 300 journals
Basic demand then: A list of Open Access Journals
And has been developing into:
The authoritative go-to point for finding peer-reviewed scholarly journals not based on the subscription model

3. THE MISSION…
Changing an unsustainable scholarly communication system in ways that it can serve science,
our societies
and the people
on a global scale
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

4. In this talk I will focus on open access journals

5. Actual Status of DOAJ DOAJ currently lists 8,820 journals
6,113 journals are searchable at article level
3,300 journals have been removed after having failed to reapply for inclusion
4,400 journals have submitted a reapplication
About 50 % of new applications get rejected

6. Journals removed from DOAJ

7. Actual Status of DOAJ
The situation in the Russian Federation
DOAJ currently lists 177 journals from the Russian Federation
42 journals have failed to reapply before the deadline
42 have reapplications submitted
More than half of reapplications employ non-CC licenses
often they are contradictory in terms of copyright and usage conditions

8. Given reasons for being listed in DOAJ!
Increased visibility : %
Increased traffic : %
Prestige : %
Certification : %
Eligibility for support from OA-publication funds: 64%
Better promotion : %
Increased submissions : %

9. Are open access journals more linked to bad publishing than supscription journals
Not all subscription journals are in Scopus only ,000 of
Not all open access journals are in DOAJ only ,000 of 35,000
No scientific evidence for the thesis
But open access has more exposure
Elsevier, Wiley and others are publishing new OA journals every week

10. We need Quality control.
October 2013
February 2014
THE STING

11. Ways of Quality Control
Impact assessment ImpactStory
Article quality peer-review
Journal Quality DOAJ
User Feedback Beall’s List

12. More and tighter criteria for…
Openness
Scientific quality
The Delivery of Technical Quality
In this talk I will focus on open access journals

13. The Basics!
COPE, OASPA, WAME & DOAJ:

14. Basic DOAJ Criteria Basic Journal Information
Quality and Transparency of the Editorial Process
Openness of the journal
Content Licensing
Copyright issues

15. The Principles 1. Peer review process
2. Governing Body
3. Editorial team/contact
4. Author fees
5. Copyright
6. Identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
7. Ownership and management
8. Web site. 9. Name of journal 10. Conflicts of interest 11. Access 12. Revenue sources 13. Advertising 14. Publishing schedule 15. Archiving 16. Direct marketing

16. The must haves! Journals must have: An Open Access statement
Comply with the BOAI definition
A peer-review process, and tell us what kind of process
An editor/editorial board with clearly identifiable members
Licensing and copyright information
Aims and scope
Published a least 5 articles to qualify

17. The copyright and Licensing
Journals are advised to have
Unrestricted copyright for the author
No exclusive publishing rights
No transfer of commercial rights
Clear licensing conditions
Preferably use of Creative commons licensing
Embedded licensing information with articles
Link to underlying data

18. The DOAJ SEAL The best you can get!
To qualify for the Seal the journal must:
1. have an archival arrangement in place with an external party (Question 25). 'No policy in place' does not qualify for the Seal.
2. provide permanent identifiers in the papers published (Question 28). 'None' does not qualify for the Seal.
3.provide article level metadata to DOAJ (Question 29). 'No' or failure to provide metadata within 3 months do not qualify for the Seal.
4. embed machine-readable CC licensing information in article level metadata (Question 45). 'No' does not qualify for the Seal.
5. allow reuse and remixing of content in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC license (Question 47). If CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, 'No' or 'Other' is selected the journal will not qualify for the Seal.
6. have a deposit policy registered in a deposit policy directory. (Question 51) 'No' does not qualify for the Seal.
7. allow the author to hold the copyright without restrictions. (Question 52) 'No' does not qualify for the Seal.
One cannot apply for the Seal. The Seal is awarded based on the information provided in the application. If you have any questions about any of the qualifiers, contact us.

19. The Main Problem...
In current scholarly publishing there are no market mechanisms, no competition
This allows publishers to steadily increase prices way above inflation
The high profits attract questionable publishers
It prevents reseachers access to knowledge
It leaves major parts of the world out of the loop

20. To change the publishing landscape we need to …
Foster competition in scholarly publishing
Develop new publishing channels
And make those attractive by offering excellent infrastructure services
Have a change in scientist mentality with regards to open access and open science
Have better ways to pinpoint questionable publishers

21. This can only happen when…
Researchers will be rewarded based on What they publish
the actual content
Researchers will be evaluated based on How they publish
whether it is open and reuseable or not
Researchers will be credited for societal impact of their work as measured by new metrics

22. In Summary we need …
More and much stronger funder and institutional mandates
Radical changes in the research evaluation system and incentives for researchers to publish in the open!
Professional infrastructure services for Open Access
Criteria for discovery of questionable publishers

23. Infrastructure Needs
Authors (and their advisors): want tools to choose reputable (open access) publishing channels
Funders and institutions: determine which publishing channels comply with their requirements
Managers of OA-publication funds: wants guidance for selecting eligible publishing channels for supporting APC- payments
Scholarly Communication Researchers want access to data to support their research

24. Infrastructure Needs Publishers want (and appreciate)
Certification / Prestige
Eligibility for support from OA-publication funds
Increased visibility
Increased traffic
More submissions
Better promotion

25. Overview of services for Open Access (Knowledge Exchange Report jan 2016)
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26. Examples of Services Journal Indexing services: PMC, DOAJ
Policy indexing: SHERPA, ROARMAP
Archiving services: LOCKSS
Repository indexing: OpenDOAR,ROAR
Identification: ISSN, DOI, ORCID
License conditions: OAS, HowOpenIsIt, QOAM
APC information:OpenAPC-de
Implementation OpenAccess: EIFL
Publishing Platforms: OJS, OLH, AJOL, SCIELO
User curated Services: Beall’s List
Open Access Button
Think Check Submit
Open Access Spectrum

27. Support services offered by DOAJ
For Authors’/ Funders
DOAJ offers support for choosing journals with approved and checked open access policies
DOAJ only lists journals with good publishing practices
DOAJ offers insight in publishing licenses used
DOAJ offers data on copyright conditions
DOAJ offers data on APC use in journals

28. Support services offered by DOAJ
For Readers/ publishers
Access to full text articles in many disciplines
Web search interface
API search
API search widget
DOAJ offers API for metadata uploading to publishers

29. Ideas from the conference
Problems with Services addressed by Dutch Presidency Conference on open science Amsterdam april 4-5, 2016
Different organizations
Little coordination
Funding depending on charity
Lack of integration
Ideas from the conference
Need for sustainable funding for essential services (DOAJ,SHERPA
Proposal to install coordinating body:
Organizing funding, integration of services,quality monitoring

30. Future possible services by DOAJ
Integration of Open Access Spectrum tool How Open Is It detailed insight in open access licensing and copyright conditions
Online Help for funders in checking which journals comply with Funder policies
Meta data harvester will allow access to more full text articles from a larger number of journals
Active help for authors to choose where to publish
Help for authors on how to avoid questionable publishers
Access to more journals from the global south

31. Thank you for your attention! tom@doaj.org lars

32. We have vacancies here! tom@doaj.org
Thanks to all the Library Consortia, Universities and Publishers and our Sponsors for the financial support to DOAJ!
We have vacancies here!

33. EXTRAS Application form Explanation

34. Promoting Best Practice (anno 2014) – Qualifiers for the DOAJ SEAL:
Archiving arrangement with an archiving organisation
Provision of permanent identifiers e.g. DOI
Provision of article level metadata to DOAJ
CC-BY (embedded machine readable in article metadata)
CC-BY or CC-BY-NC
Deposit policy registered in a deposit policy directory

35. New criteria (>50) The new application form:

36. Openness
Openness, Reuse& Remixing rights, Licensing, Copyrights and Permissions!

37. Reuse/remix

38. Licensing

39. Copyright and permissions

40. Editorial ”quality” QUALITY AND TRANSPARENCY OF THE EDITORIAL PROCESS
The journal must have two editors (Arts & Humanities) or an editorial board of 5 members, all members must be easily identified and have a good reputation
Specification of the review process
Editorial review, Peer review., Blind peer review, Double blind peer review, Open Peer Review, Other
Statements about aims & scope clearly visible
Instructions to authors shall be available and easily located
Screening for plagiarism?
Time from submission to publication

41. Editorial issues
Specify what kind of reveiw process is applied: Editorial review, Peer Review, Blind Peer Review, Double Blind Peer Review, Open Peer Review

42. Archiving/Preservation
Archiving is important – too many OA-journals do not have an archiving arrangement

43. Permanent Identifiers (DOIs)
Has your journal(s) implemented DOIs:
Yes: 35%
No: 55%
Don´t know: 10%

44. Plagiarism

45. Deposit policy

46. Submission Charges