<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ba617c69-7fff-e367-c701-ff93e7dc6aa8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Heather Morrison in a recent post voices her disappointment that none of the journals of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Global Media Journal </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">network nor the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">International Journal of Communication </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">are included in DOAJ because these journals</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">are fully open access, inclusive, have no publication charges, and are the journals that {I} would recommend irrespective of OA and fee status”.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">She is not the first to suggest that DOAJ is not inclusive enough.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In answer to this we want to remind everyone that DOAJ only includes high quality Open Access journals that </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>fulfill the DOAJ </u></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>criteria</u> and which <u>have applied</u> to be indexed. As a result many Open Access journals will not be included if they do not meet the criteria or have not applied for inclusion (see the post </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-</span><a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2019/07/31/myth-busting-doaj-is-not-inclusive/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://blog.doaj.org/2019/07/31/myth-busting-doaj-is-not-inclusive/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> )</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the cases mentioned by Heather Morrison  3 of the 11 journals from the Global Media Journal (GMJ) network have been accepted into DOAJ, but 8 are no longer in DOAJ. The reasons for this are as follows:  6 did not reapply for</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> indexing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; 2 did not supply information on essential criteria like Open Access statement, licensing, copyright, APC information, peer reviewing or editorial board and were therefore rejected for not meeting the new criteria for indexing in DOAJ introduced back in 2014.  One of these journals had not published any articles for more than one year. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Another 3 GMJ journals not mentioned by Heather were rejected for failing to provide essential information </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">in</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> their websites (African, Mediterrenean, Slovak editions).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the case of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> International Journal of Communication the journal was also rejected because they did not meet the DOAJ criteria for inclusion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite all these journals to apply again for inclusion in DOAJ if they believe they now  comply with our criteria.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal;font-size:12.8px"> DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals </span><a href="http://doaj.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal;font-size:12.8px">DOAJ.ORG</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal;font-size:12.8px"> )</span>

</span></p></span><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Lars Bjørnshauge  <br></div><div>Managing Director </div><div><br></div><div>Tom Olijhoek PhD<br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Editor in Chief</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Judith Barnsby </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Senior Managing Editor</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>