Join the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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Goal: join DOAJ and earn a DOAJ seal (for OA best practices)

DOAJ Seal requirements

1. Digital preservation: The journal content must be continuously deposited in Keepers Registry, Internet Archive, or PubMed Central.
2. Persistent article identifiers: Articles must use persistent article identifiers. DOI, ARK or Handle are the most commonly used. All persistent links must resolve correctly.
3. Metadata supply to DOAJ: Article metadata must be uploaded to DOAJ regularly.
4. 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, or CC BY-NC-SA). [note: this is looser than the OASPA's requirement to use CC BY or CC BY-NC]
5. License information in articles: Creative Commons licensing information must be displayed in all full-text article formats.
6. Copyright and publishing rights: Authors must retain unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights when publishing under any license permitted by the journal.
7. Self-archiving 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.

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• [ ] Split each requirement into its own issue