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2014/09/11

Open-access website gets tough

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How the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) struggles against poor quality open access journals by asking all of the journals in its directory to reapply on the basis of stricter criteria (10000 titles) and by giving a ‘seal’ of best practice to those which meet the highest criteria. These evolutions shall help the DOAJ to become a more useful tool for funders, librarians and researchers.