To support open access, Amigos Library Services is partnering with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Amigos member libraries can become DOAJ supporters for 2021 with a 30% discount.
"This important alliance between DOAJ and Amigos highlights the significance of open access infrastructure to libraries in research institutions across the world. We are delighted to partner with Amigos as we work together to further open access scholarly publishing and support future generations of researchers" said Lars Bjørnshauge, DOAJ Founder and Managing Director.
DOAJ support comes at two levels, Basic and Sustaining
- Basic DOAJ Support benefits include:
- Acknowledgement as a DOAJ Basic Supporter on the DOAJ Supporters' webpage
- Designation on the Supporters' webpage that your support was facilitated by Amigos
- Ability to provide Supporter Feedback
- The right to use the DOAJ Basic Supporter status in marketing activities
- Sustaining DOAJ Support benefits include:
- All the benefits of Basic support
- The opportunity for participation in governance by nominating and voting on members of the DOAJ Council and Advisory Board
- Libraries also have the option to pay three years up front to receive an additional discount.
About DOAJ
DOAJ is a community curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer reviewed journals. DOAJ deploys more than one hundred carefully selected volunteers from among the community of library and other academic disciplines to assist in the curation of open access journals. This independent database contains over 16,000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. DOAJ is financially supported worldwide by libraries, publishers and other like-minded organizations. DOAJ services (including the evaluation of journals) are free for all, and all data provided by DOAJ are harvestable via OAI/PMH and the API. See https://doaj.org/ for more information.