Emerald is bronze sponsor of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

5th April 2018

Bingley, United Kingdom, 05 April 2018 – In keeping with our commitment to extend the real world impact of high quality scholarly research, Emerald Publishing is pleased to be a bronze sponsor of the Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ).

 

DOAJ is an independent, non-profit organization hosting a community-curated list of open access journals, and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality peer-reviewed open access material.  It’s mission, is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access journals to promote usage and impact.

 

Caitlin Cornish, Head of Publishing, said: “At Emerald, we’re committed to supporting our author community achieve their goals and helping them achieve recognition of their research within academia and in practice.  With this in mind, we sponsored the DOAJ as we strongly support their mission to increase visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research worldwide.”

 

With almost 3 million articles available to download across a wide variety of subjects, the comprehensive directory provides global visibility of high quality research.

 

Lars Bjørnshauge, Founder and Managing Director at DOAJ, said: "We are very happy to welcome Emerald Publishing as a Bronze Sponsor to the Directory of Open Access Journals. DOAJ is 100% dependent on support from the community, and this enables us to continue providing and developing free services for all stakeholders in the scholarly communication landscape.  We very much appreciate the support provided by Emerald.” 

 

For more information about DOAJ, please visit: https://doaj.org/ 

 

Emerald works closely with the communities we serve to ensure global dissemination of scholarly research.  For more information about Emerald’s Open Access policy, please visit the Open Access web page: https://www.emeraldinsight.com/page/openaccess