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At the end of the process (December 2017), close to 5,000 journals, out of the 11,600 indexed in May 2016, had been removed from their database, in majority for failure to reapply. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Notwithstanding the substantial cleanup, the number of journals included in DOAJ has continued to grow, to reach 14,299 as of 3 March 2020. [ 7 ]
diamond or platinum open-access journals, which charge no additional publication, open access or article processing fees; gold open-access journals, which charge publication fees (also called article processing charges, APCs).
No-fee open access journals, also known as "platinum" or "diamond" [26] [27] do not charge either readers or authors. [96] These journals use a variety of business models including subsidies, advertising, membership dues, endowments, or volunteer labour.
Article processing fees for journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (2019). Journals use a variety of ways to generate the income required to cover publishing costs (including editorial costs, any costs of administering the peer review system), such as subsidies from institutions [7] and subscriptions.
The OA Diamond Study finds that the 10,194 journals without publication fees registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals published 356,000 articles (8–9% of all scholarly articles) per year from 2017 to 2019 instead of 453,000 articles (10–11%) published by 3,919 commercial journals with APCs. [15]
Open access publishers allow authors to retain their copyright, but attach a reuse license to the work so that it can be hosted by the publisher and openly shared, reused and adapted. Such publishers are funded either by charging authors article processing fees ( gold OA ) or by subsidy from a larger organisation ( diamond OA ).
When posting the preprint, authors should choose a CC BY-NC-ND license [62] National Academy of Sciences: Unrestricted Unrestricted Unrestricted [63] [64] [65] Optica: Unrestricted Unrestricted Unrestricted [66] Oxford University Press: Unrestricted, except:
Open Journal Systems, also known as OJS, is an open source and free software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, created by the Public Knowledge Project, and released under the GNU General Public License. [1]