News
February 1, 2017
GMS journals awarded with the DOAJ Seal for Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a list of quality-controlled scientific journals which are freely accessible on the Internet according to the principles of open access. The journals already listed in DOAJ were reviewed again as part of a measure to update and increase the quality of the DOAJ content. At the same time, DOAJ checked whether the journals fulfilled the conditions of the DOAJ Seal. This seal is awarded to journals with a high level of openness and transparency as well as best publishing standards. In order to obtain the DOAJ Seal, seven criteria must be met, including an archiving policy, the embedding of machine-readable liberal Creative Commons licenses, e.g. CC-BY, the providing of article metadata and the assignment of persistent identifiers such as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
The editorial team of GMS is pleased to announce that all the 10 GMS journals listed in DOAJ have been awarded the DOAJ Seal. This confirms the high quality of GMS open access publishing in terms of content and technical standards. In addition to information about the journals, the GMS editorial team regularly uploads the metadata of the published articles, thus increasing the visibility of the journals’ content.
