[IRTalk] Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Strengthening African Scholarly Journals

[Ina Smith]

Dear African Scholarly Journal Stakeholders (Editors, Publishers, Academics, Librarians, et al.),

Please share widely with journal editors, academics, publishers and librarians in your network. Thank you so much!

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"DOAJ is one of the most important infrastructure services part of the CERN Open Science strategy." - Anne-Gentil Beccot (CERN)(February 2025). DOAJ is further accredited by the SA Dept, of Higher Education, the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education, and also by universities such as the Addis Ababa University (requirement as part of the Research and Innovation Policy).
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This email since DOAJ would like to offer to host DOAJ workshops/presentations for scholarly journals in Africa. This is part of our effort to enhance the visibility, accessibility, and impact of African research and scholarly publications on DOAJ. Furthermore, DOAJ is increasing its strategic focus on Africa and has allocated more resources to accelerate this initiative in 2025.

Please assist us in making this a success in 2025!

Hosting DOAJ Workshops
Would you like to host a virtual DOAJ workshop or presentation for editors, publishers, librarians, etc in your country? All you need to do is:

- Reach out to us with a possible date/s
- Help identify scholarly journals and individuals in your country (incl. email addresses)
- Share the workshop/presentation invitation with scholarly journal stakeholders in your country

DOAJ will take care of the rest, including setting up the webinar, registration forms, invitations, certificates, and more.

For workshop/presentation requests, also as part of planned events at your organisation, please contact the relevant regional DOAJ Ambassador:

West, Central & Southern Africa: ina at doaj.org<mailto:ina at doaj.org>
North Africa: kamel at assaf.org.za<mailto:kamel at assaf.org.za>
East Africa: melkamu at doaj.org<mailto:melkamu at doaj.org>

Join the Scholpubtalk Community of Practice (CoP)
Advancing high-quality African scholarly publications requires us to stay connected. We invite you to join the scholpubtalk at googlegroups.com<mailto:scholpubtalk at googlegroups.com> mailing list to stay informed about:

- Best practices in scholarly journal publishing
- DOAJ updates and developments of relevance to Africa
- Using PKP OJS software for journal publishing, and more

To join, visit scholpubtalk Google Group<https://groups.google.com/g/scholpubtalk> and request to join the group.

Help spread the word
We have prepared materials to raise awareness about DOAJ. You are welcome to share them within your network.

French flyer: https://zenodo.org/records/15012001
French video: https://zenodo.org/records/15013486
English flyer: https://zenodo.org/records/14901323
English video: https://zenodo.org/records/14900996

Thank you for your continued support in strengthening African research visibility! We are looking very much forward to hearing from you, so we can reach more African countries during 2025!

With kind regards,
Ina

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Ina Smith
Senior Ambassador Africa
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)<https://doaj.org/>
ina at doaj.org<mailto:ina at doaj.org>
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