🌐Openjournals Network and User Day 2026
Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, is attending the Openjournals Network and User Day #DiamondOA #DOAJ
📅3 June
📍Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Details and registration: https://openjournals.nl/netwerk-en-gebruikersdag-2026/
FilSO - n°30

Le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Espace et le Comité pour la science ouverte lancent l'édition 2026 des Prix Science ouverte : thèse, logiciel libre de recherche et données de recherche. Ces prix sont inscrits dans le deuxième Plan national pour la science ouverte, et ont pour objectif de mettre en valeur les pratiques de science ouverte.

📣Call for Proposals: DOAJ Open Access Engagement Asia Award
🏆The award supports initiatives aimed at increasing awareness of open access, #DOAJ, and a better understanding of quality standards for scholarly publishing
Applications close 15 June
🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/05/22/doaj-open-access-engagement-asia-award-call-for-proposals/
DOAJ Open Access Engagement Asia Award: Call for proposals – DOAJ Blog

🧰The University-Based Publishing Futures community has just released an Advocacy Toolkit for University-Based Publishing #Library #ScholarlyComms #DOAJ
📅Launch webinar on June 1
▶️Details and Registration
https://publishingfutures.hcommons.org/advocacy-working-group/
1️⃣The first journal from Namibia (Southern Africa) was indexed in DOAJ this year 🎉
The Namibian Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Communication Studies (NJLLCS) is a #DiamondOA journal and we were pleased to interview the editors #DOAJ #JournalStories #Africa
🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/05/18/the-story-behind-the-journal-namibian-journal-of-linguistics-literature-and-communication-studies-njllcs/
🔴 We're pleased to share our 'DOAJ Annual Highlights 2025
Thank you for using, contributing to, supporting and teaching others about DOAJ. We are so grateful for our growing global community
#DOAJ #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #DOAJAmbassadors
▶️https://zenodo.org/records/20152107
🔵⚪🔴Nouveauté: le DOAJ propose son formulaire de candidature en français!
Un pas important vers plus d’accessibilité pour les communautés francophones
#OpenAccess #DOAJ #Francophonie #ScienceOuverte
🔗En savoir plus https://blog.doaj.org/fr/2026/04/27/a-new-step-toward-making-applications-more-accessible-to-francophone-communities/

Update. I'm very glad to see the #DOAJ endorse the #PKP "Publication Facts" label.
https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/introducing-the-publication-facts-label-another-tool-in-your-research-integrity-toolkit/

I hope this nudges more publishers to use the labels. In any case, it should lead more readers to expect publishers to use them.

#ScholComm
@DOAJ
@PublicKnowledgeProject

📣 #DOAJ Call for volunteers

We are now recruiting volunteers who ideally have a scholarly communications background, preferably in Library Sciences, and preferably based in Asia #OpenAccess
#BestPractice #volunteers #ScholarlyComms

See our latest blog for details 👇
🔗 https://blog.doaj.org/2026/04/15/call-for-volunteers/

DOAJ Managing Director Joanna Ball is keynote speaker at the upcoming 3º Encontro PUB IN (3rd PUB IN Meeting), focused on journals and scientific communication for open science
#OpenScience #OpenAccess #DOAJ
📅16-17 April
📍Coimbra, Portugal
🔗 https://www.pubin.pt/3encontropubin/