[GOAL] job vacancies at DOAJ

[Tom Olijhoek]

Seeking DOAJ Ambassadors for the developing world (10 month contract)
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VACANCIES - DOAJ Ambassadors

As you may be aware, DOAJ has been given a grant from the International
Development Research Centre <http://www.idrc.ca/> (IDRC) to improve open
access publishing practices in the developing world.

The overall objective of the grant is to enhance DOAJ and the open access
infrastructure that supports researchers' ability to publish in reputable
open access journals.

DOAJ is seeking 8-10 full time individuals as DOAJ Ambassadors (10 month
contract) who are residents in the following regions and are native
speakers of the indicated languages and fluent in English:

*Region (Languages)*
Latin America (Spanish and/or Portuguese)
Middle East & Persian Gulf (Arabic)
Africa - North/West (Arabic and French)
Africa - South/East (English)
India/Pakistan (Hindi)
Indonesia (Indonesian)
China & South East Asia (Chinese - Mandarin or Cantonese)

The tasks of the DOAJ Ambassadors are:

   - To promote the DOAJ in their respective regions
   - To review and actively solicit new applications and reapplications to
   DOAJ from their region
   - To discover and assist Open Access publishers in their region in
   implementing good publishing practices
   - To identify questionable publishers and practices

The role requires knowledge of academic publishing, in particular online
journals, editorial processes, best practices and publishing technology
standards.

You can find the job announcement at
https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/vacancy-doaj-ambassadors/

We encourage you to apply, or to forward this announcement to anyone you
feel would be a suitable candidate for these roles. We are grateful if you
could forward this announcement also to chinese citizens living in China.


Many thanks,
The Managing Editors

Tom Olijhoek PhD
Editor in Chief, Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ.ORG
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