The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Crossref have renewed their partnership with new objectives focused on improving scholarly metadata and expanding support for journals in low- and middle-income countries. The organizations stated that the renewed collaboration reflects a shared commitment to improving sustainable, equitable services and infrastructure in scholarly communication.
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Scholarly research spans multiple languages, making multilingual metadata crucial for organizing and accessing knowledge across linguistic boundaries. These multilingual metadata already exist and are propagated throughout the scholarly publishing infrastructure, but the extent to which they are correctly recorded, or how they affect metadata quality more broadly, is little understood.
En octobre 2024, l’Abes annonçait dans un billet Fil’Abes sa décision de prioriser ses activités pour répondre aux défis de son projet d’établissement 2024-2028. L’objectif ? Concentrer ses ressources sur les chantiers les plus stratégiques pour l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche.
Dès 2026, cette stratégie prend de l’ampleur avec le…
Les métadonnées ne sont pas qu’un outil technique : ce sont des récits, des ponts entre les recherches, les générations et les cultures. Derrière des termes comme « infrastructure » ou « schéma » se cachent à la fois un art (raconter, visualiser) et une science (structurer, normaliser). Crossref, pionnier…
« Scientists strive to make their datasets available in open repositories, with the goal that they be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Although it is hard for most investigators to remember all the guiding principles associated with FAIR data, there is one overarching requirement: The data need to be annotated…
« This guest blog post by Li Bo offers a librarian’s perspective on the core role of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in academic work, including discovering, accessing, and analyzing high-quality open access journals, as well as its practical applications in journal selection, data analysis, and promoting open science.…
» The increasing emphasis on data quantity in research infrastructures has highlighted the need for equally robust mechanisms ensuring data quality, particularly in bibliographic and citation datasets. This paper addresses the challenge of maintaining high-quality open research information within OpenCitations, a community-guided Open Science Infrastructure, by introducing tools for validating…
« (…) DeepGreen is an automated delivery service for open access articles. Originally conceived to take advantage of the so-called open access component—a secondary publication right in Alliance and National licences in Germany to promote green open access—it aims to streamline open access processes by automating the distribution of full-text articles…
« In recent years, research integrity issues are in the limelight with the emergence of new and complex threats, such as paper mills, citation cartels, fabricated peer reviews, fake papers, artificial intelligence–generated images, among many others.1-4 A worrying feature of these emerging research integrity threats is that they often occur at…
« As an adopter of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure and a supporter of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, DOAJ is committed to making its metadata openly available for the community’s use. Our metadata is reused across library systems, discovery services, search…
