Invitation to participate in DOAJ’s Community Consultation

Amigos partner, DOAJ, a trusted directory dedicated to indexing high-quality Open Access journals, plays a pivotal role in the scholarly community. Libraries make extensive use of DOAJ as a source of trusted journals, integrating metadata into their discovery systems and open access services. Amigos partnership with DOAJ simplifies the process of library contributions for DOAJ and facilitates libraries providing financial support for DOAJ's vital work.

DOAJ has commissioned Gold Leaf to consult with the community to ensure that the data collected by the service is relevant, necessary, and useful. All global stakeholders and users of DOAJ, regardless of location, are encouraged to participate in the survey. The survey will close on Friday, 6 May 2024.

Survey link can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DOAJconsultation

The directory indexes more than 20,400 journals. A journal’s entry in the directory may contain up to 43 different pieces of data, including 15 links, that have been checked and verified by hand. With this consultation, DOAJ would like to review how to maximize its impact with limited resources. You can read more about why this survey is being conducted in DOAJ’s newest blog post. 

Gold Leaf will collect feedback with the survey and then follow up with individual interviews for a select group of volunteers. The survey should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. A PDF version of the questions is available for download.

DOAJ and Gold Leaf will publicly share the headline results from this consultation and email them to each participant who has asked for them.