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The DOAJ Seal is awarded to journals that demonstrate best practice in open access publishing. Around 10% of journals indexed in DOAJ have been awarded the Seal.

Journals do not need to meet the Seal criteria to be accepted into DOAJ.

There are seven criteria which a journal must meet to be eligible for the DOAJ Seal. These relate to best practices in long-term preservation, use of persistent identifiers, discoverability, reuse policies and authors' rights.

Criteria

All seven criteria must be met for a journal to be awarded the Seal. Failure to maintain the best practice and standards described in these criteria may lead to removal of the Seal.

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  1. Digital preservation (Archiving policy)
  • The journal content must be continuously deposited in one of these archives:
    • any archiving agency included in Keepers Registry
    • Internet Archive
    • PubMed Central
  1. Self-archiving (Repository policy)
  • Authors must be permitted to deposit all versions of their paper in an institutional or subject repository.
    • Preprint
    • Author's Accepted Manuscript
    • Published article (Version of Record)
  • An embargo may not be applied.
  1. Persistent article identifiers (Unique identifiers)
  • Articles must use persistent article identifiers. DOI, ARK or Handle are the most commonly used.
  • All persistent links must resolve correctly.
  1. Metadata supply to DOAJ
  • Article metadata must be uploaded to DOAJ regularly.
  1. License type
  • The journal must permit the use of a Creative Commons license that allows the creation of derivative products.
    • CC BY
    • CC BY-SA
    • CC BY-NC
    • CC BY-NC-SA
  1. License information in articles
  • Creative Commons licensing information must be displayed in all full-text article formats.
  1. Copyright and publishing rights
  • Authors must retain unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights when publishing under any license permitted by the journal.

In other languages

French - hosted by Érudit Portuguese - hosted by Editora Cubo

Version history

This is Version 1 of our Seal criteria.