3. Aims& Scope
to increase the visibility and easeof use
scholarly journals, thereby promotingscholarly journals, thereby promoting
to be comprehensive and cover all open
journals that useaquality control system
In short, the DOAJaims to be THEone stop
accessjournals.
use of open accessscientific and
promoting their increased usageandimpact.promoting their increased usageandimpact.
open access scientific and scholarly
system to guarantee thecontent.
stopshop for users of open
4. OpenAccessJournalDefinition
Journals that useafunding model that
does not charge readers or their
institutionsfor access.institutionsfor access.
Supporting the rights ofusers to "read,Supporting the rights ofusers to "read,
download, copy, distribute, print, search,
to the full texts of these articles" as
for a journal to be included in the directory.
Journal
"read,"read,
search, or link
asmandatory
directory.
5. Definitions
Thejournal must exercise
quality control tobe
Quality
ControlControl
Journals that report
overviews of research
Research
Journal
Aserial appearing, or intending
intervals and generally
which is numbered or
separatearticles, stories,Periodical
exercise peer-reviewor editorial
be included.
report primary results of research or
research resultsto ascholarly community.
intending to appear, indefinitely at regular
generally more frequently than annually, eachissueof
or dated consecutively and normally contains
stories, or otherwritings.
6. Coverage
SelectionCriteria
all scientific and scholarly subjects areSubject
scientific and scholarly periodicalsTypesof scientific and scholarly periodicals
full text.
academic, government, commercial,
acceptable.
Typesof
resource
Acceptable
sources
the target group for included
researchers.
Level
asubstantive part of the journal
papers.All contentshouldbe
Content
All languagesLanguage
Coverage
subjects arecovered
periodicals that publish researchor review papers inperiodicals that publish researchor review papers in
commercial, non-profit private sourcesare all
included journals should primarily be
journal should consist of research
beavailable in full text.
8. Quality
SelectionCriteria
For ajournal to be included it should
control on submitted papers throughcontrol on submitted papers through
editorial board and/or apeer-review
should exercise quality
through an editor,through an editor,
review system.
10. Information
Metadata
Resourceswill be catalogued on
Tomake article level content searchable
journal owners supply article metadata
hasbeen added into the directory.hasbeen added into the directory.
onjournal title level
searchable in the system,
metadata when ajournal
directory.directory.