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🌐 Paradise Lost, Knowledge Regained: Jan Erik Frantsvåg on reclaiming open access In Part 2 of this interview, @jefrantsvag.bsky.social discusses the vital community-building role of smaller society journals and the need for institutional support in #DiamondOA Part 2️⃣ blog.doaj.org/2026/10/27/p...

🌐 Strengthening Open Access Together: DOAJ and Libraries Supporting a Sustainable Australasian Publishing Ecosystem 📅 November 5 How @doaj.bsky.social is working with libraries to support a more open, equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem ▶️ caul.edu.au/event/?id=118

⏰Last chance to register for “Publish, Review, Curate (PRC): Shaping the future of scholarly publishing,” where we will discuss a new vision for research communication based on the PRC model—a vision that places openness, transparency, community participation, and scholarly judgment at its core.

🌐 2026 Charleston Conference DOAJ Platform Manager Brendan O'Connell is presenting at a stopwatch session (November 4): Beyond Bots vs. Humans 📅 2-6 November 📍 Charleston, SC, United States Details: www.charleston-hub.com/the-charlest...

🌐 Vacancy – Head of Editorial Join DOAJ as our Head of Editorial and help lead the development of our editorial function #DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam #editorial 📅 Closing date: 12:00 UTC, 9th of November ▶️ All details about the role and expectations: blog.doaj.org/2026/10/26/v...

📍 #OAWeek2026 🧡 We acknowledge the global community of libraries, researchers, editors, publishers, volunteers, and open infrastructure providers whose shared commitment sustains non-profit services such as DOAJ 🧡 Their collective work keeps scholarly knowledge open, discoverable, and accessible

📍 International #OAWeek2026 The cost of knowledge is not just financial; it’s about inclusion and equity. DOAJ Ambassadors are continuing the conversation on how to build a truly inclusive research ecosystem 🎉 Celebrating 10 Years of the DOAJ Ambassador Programme blog.doaj.org/2026/06/08/c...

💡 Co-Creating Responsible Research Assessment: Informing DORA’s New Guide 🌎For the Americas, Africa and Europe region 📅 October 27 🎤 Host: Monica Weston @dorassessment.bsky.social with @joannaball.bsky.social Registration us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Find quality open access journals at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The DOAJ team and its 100+ volunteers have identified 23,000+ peer-reviewed OA journals across 92 languages. DOAJ has been doing this valuable work for over 20 years! doaj.org #OAweek #DOAJ @doaj.bsky.social

📍#OAWeek2026 Accurate metadata 🟰 Discoverability 🟰 Open knowledge 🔓 DOAJ is a non-profit, open-metadata resource When #metadata is the foundation of open research, we reduce the cost of knowledge making sure high-quality journals are findable blog.doaj.org/category/met...

💡 Co-Creating Responsible Research Assessment: Informing DORA’s New Guide 🌏 For the Asia Pacific region 📅 October 27 🎤 Host: Rasoul Zavaraqi @dorassessment.bsky.social Steering Committee Representative for Asia & #DOAJ Advisory Board Registration us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📍 International Open Access Week 2026 The "Cost of Knowledge" should not be a barrier to access 🌍 Diamond open access presents as a sustainable, equitable solution for our research ecosystem. We are proud to support journals that remove paywalls #OAWeek2026 blog.doaj.org/tag/diamond-...

We look forward to discussing all things scholarly communication and research assessment with the @doaj.bsky.social community! Register for one of the two sessions Asia-Pacific friendly: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Africa, Americas, Europe friendly: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... See you there?

The 5th Annual Forum for Open Research has already started! Join us using the Zoom links to each session here: shorturl.at/4vi20 #FORM26 #FORM4Open #OpenScience

📣DOAJ is pleased to announce a Memorandum of Understanding with the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine (SSTL) as a national ambassador institution Details: blog.doaj.org/2026/10/19/f...

🌐 Open Science and Innovation in Ukraine 2026 DOAJ Managing Director @joannaball.bsky.social will be presenting - Building Trust in Open Science: How Quality Journals Strengthen National Research Ecosystems 📅 21-22 October Details: nauka.gov.ua/en/opportuni...

📍 #OAWeek2026 #OAWeek DOAJ directly supports the goals of this year’s theme by increasing the visibility and accessibility of quality #OA journals, promoting a diverse and equitable scholarly ecosystem, and providing a trusted, non-profit infrastructure that ensures knowledge remains a public good

🔴 Our congratulations to @tuwhera.bsky.social 🔟 Ten years old this week 🎉 Tuwhera is an open access platform supported by Research Services and Digital Development teams at Te Mātāpuna Library & Learning Services at AUT in Aotearoa, New Zealand blog.doaj.org/2025/07/29/t...

🇪🇸 Bienvenida Spanish Research State Agency (AEI)! AEI’s commitment strengthens national research funders’ role in advancing open research information, complementing its support for @dorassessment.bsky.social + CoARA. 🔗https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20261015_aei_joins_barcelona_declaration/

Join DOAJ and @dorassessment.bsky.social for an interactive community consultation (across two regions)📅📅📅October 27 🌏 For the Asia Pacific region: Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🌎 For the Americas, Africa and Europe region Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🔎 What if you could do more with #DiamondOA journal metadata? The Diamond Discovery Hub now offers three new features: metadata export, journal record history, and improved handling of deleted journals. Explore the updates: tinyurl.com/yc6ezuvy #AEGISOA

💡 You asked. We answered Recently, we invited our community to “Ask Us Anything” 🤔 You asked: How do I become a volunteer or Ambassador for DOAJ? 💬 We Answered: We put all calls out for volunteers ambassadors and vacanices on our blog. Subscribe to the blog to get all the latest news blog.doaj.org

Survey deadline extended 👇

🌐In Part 1 of this interview with #DOAJ @jefrantsvag.bsky.social asserts that universities should invest in community-owned publishing infrastructure rather than relying heavily on commercial publishers and APCs @petersuber.bsky.social @eudch.bsky.social 🎙️ blog.doaj.org/2026/10/12/p...

💎In this post from the German Service Centre Diamond Open Access (SeDOA), Marcel Wrzesinski, @joannaball.bsky.social and Margo Bargheer summarise a recent workshop held at LIBER 2026 #DiamondOA #SeDOA @eudch.bsky.social 🔗 diamond-open-access.de/equitable-pu...

🌐 National Open Science Festival 2026 DOAJ Managing Editor and Ambassador for Türkiye, @Ramazan Turgut, will be attending this year’s event which brings together the open science community @opensciencenl.bsky.social 📆 14 October 📍 TU Delft, the Netherlands Program details: opensciencefestival.nl

🌐 Distributing knowledge for equity — An evolving concept and a call for action Blog post from @openbookpublish.bsky.social blogs.openbookpublishers.com/distributing...

🧰The OA Journals Toolkit is a free resource from @oaspa.bsky.social and DOAJ Jules Luck, an Accessibility and Production Specialist at Penn State University Libraries, utilises theToolkit as an essential resource for managing their portfolio of #OpenAccess journals. ▶️ blog.doaj.org/2026/08/17/p...

🌐 #LundOnline2026 Access to Knowledge – 👉exploring how libraries, publishers and academic institutions can work together to create a more sustainable scholarly communication landscape @joannaball.bsky.social 📆 14-16 October www.lundonline.lub.lu.se/lundonline

🔴 🟠🟢Think. Check. Submit. has launched new Arabic and French videos alongside an interactive journal checklist to help researchers identify trusted publishers and avoid predatory publishing @thinkchecksub.bsky.social ▶️ blog.doaj.org/2026/10/06/e...

🌍 150+ signatories, and counting! The Barcelona Declaration now brings together 150+ signatory organizations across 37 countries. New signatories come from Brazil, El Salvador, Georgia & Spain. Together, we’re making open research information the norm. barcelona-declaration.org/signatories/

🌐 DOAJ Ambassador for West Africa Oluchi Ojinamma Atu-Okere is presenting at the 20th Library and Information Technology Today (LITT 2026) Workshop Hosted by the Nigerian Library Association - Information Technology Section (NLA-ITS) 📆 11-16 October 📍 Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria

🌐 Frankfurt Book Fair | Frankfurter Buchmesse 2026 - EASE Presentation DOAJ Managing Editor Yuliia Hartman will be part of a discussion exploring the resilience of the academic publishing community @easeeditors.bsky.social 🗓️ 7-11 October Details: event.buchmesse.de/sessions/68312

📚 Do you work with #DiamondOA books? AEGIS-OA is gathering community input on adapting the #DiamondOA Standard (DOAS) for OA book publishing. Your experience can help shape DOAS to reflect the diversity and needs of the OA books community. 📝 tinyurl.com/y9t7xsjs 📅 Deadline: 18/10/2026, 23:59 CET

🌐 Nuevo formulario de preevaluación DOAJ: una invitación a las revistas de México e Indonesia DOAJ invita a todas las revistas mexicanas y en indonesias que actualmente no están indexadas en DOAJ a utilizar el nuevo formulario de preevaluación ▶️ blog.doaj.org/es/2026/09/2...

🌐 From Local to Global: Qualifying Academic Journals for Inexing in International Databases DOAJ Managing Editor and Ambassador for MENA Mahmoud Khalifa will present at this webinar hosted by Allama Iqbal Open University 🗓️ 30 September 🕚 11am PKT (Teams)

🌐Using our new pre-assessment checklist: An invitation to Mexican and Indonesian journals DOAJ is inviting all Mexican and Indonesian journals not currently indexed in DOAJ to use the new pre-assessment checklist This checklist is available in English & Spanish 🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/09/28/u...

🌐 Anna Lindh Foundation's ALF Policy Debate DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for North Africa and the Middle East @belhamel.bsky.social is part of a panel discussion 🗓️ 30 September – 1 October 📍 Matera, Italy Details: alf-public-policies.my.canva.site/matera-landi...

Please consider completeing this survey if you work with Diamond #OpenAccess books 👇

We are pleased to introduce a new webinar series for #editors, #publishers, and others supporting scholarly publishing in #Africa. ASSAf, Crossref, DOAJ, EIFL, and PKP will share guidance on editorial workflows, #metadata and more. More on our blog: https://doi.org/10.64000/xzjzz-t2820

📖 New output📖 ALMASI released its first Policy brief to present the findings between January 2025 and June 2026. 👀 Read it in your language: English doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Español doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Français doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Português doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The Diamond OA Policy Forum Europe on funding is in two weeks! 🗣️ Discover all the speakers below. 💬 The meeting will be held in English. 🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../q.... #DOAPolicyForum #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience

🌐 Open-Access-Tage 2026 DOAJ Editorial Consultant Dr. Katrin Fritsche will be presenting a workshop for self-assessment of journal (Diamond) Open Access characteristics – and a poster session 📅 28-30 September 📍 Johannes Kepler University, Austria Programme open-access-tage.de/open-access-...

📢 We want to hear from you! Ask us anything Your feedback, as always, is important, not only does it help us address similar questions directly, but your questions will help us build an evolving FAQ page on the #DOAJ website 🔖 See details on how to ask #FAQs blog.doaj.org/2026/09/21/a...

🔸 Our work depends on sustained investment in our people, systems and infrastructure. We are therefore very grateful to the publishers and data users who choose to support DOAJ and contribute to the costs of maintaining and developing the service #OpenInfrastructure ▶️ blog.doaj.org/2026/09/18/s...

DOAJ Ambassadors Ina Smith & Oluchi Okere will present the opening session of this collaborative webinar series for strengthening the scholarly publishing ecosystem in Africa The webinar is offered in English and French 📅30 September ⏰9-10am GMT Details: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🌍 DOAJ is pleased to be part of this collaborative webinar series with ASSAf @crossref.bsky.social @eifl.bsky.social and @pkp.sfu.ca to share practical guidance, resources, and approaches for strengthening the scholarly publishing ecosystem in Africa ▶️ Details: www.crossref.org/blog/strengt...

One more week until the OASPA 2026 Conference! @oaspa.bsky.social 📍 Hotel Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Croatia 📅 21-23 September Look out for Poster Lightning Talks from DOAJ Full programme now available #OASPA2026 www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa...

Think. Check. Submit. video is now available in Arabic! Watch and share the Arabic video: youtu.be/vF5Z8QPCi8s

⌛ Not long now until the OASPA 2026 Conference! We are looking forward to joining the global #OpenAccess and #OpenScience community – Managing Director @joannaball.bsky.social will be attending 📍 Hotel Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Croatia 🗓️ 21-23 September @oaspa.bsky.social www.oaspa.org/events/oaspa...