Measures for Success: Measures of Quality

DOAJ indexes a huge variety of Open Access publishers: from open access megajournals to groundbreaking OA journals to the single journal, operated by one person with limited funding. There is a long-tail of small, single journals publishers indexed in the Directory and they make up the majority. DOAJ\u27s day-to-day processes include considering new journals for inclusion and screening existing journals to ensure compliance to a set of quality indicators and that DOAJ remains a Directory of quality open access journals. To meet this goal, DOAJ uses its own universally applicable list of Quality Indicators. DOAJ will present the list and explain how its screening process had to become more sophisticated as the field of open access has changed. We will show how a journal\u27s adherence to or intention to adhere to publishing practices, such as long-term preservation & archiving, the use of permanent identifiers, the type of peer-review, are used to assess a journal, its management and its procedures. We will also illustrate how the DOAJ and the librarian community enjoy a mutually beneficial partnership, how libraries support DOAJ financially and provide important assistance with the screening process. We will show how libraries can use the DOAJ as a tool for measuring journal quality and as a 2 resource for promoting quality open access to faculty