19 April 2024
DOAJ has commissioned Gold Leaf to consult with the community to ensure that the data collected by the service is relevant, necessary, and useful. All global stakeholders and users of DOAJ, regardless of location, are encouraged to participate in the survey.
The directory indexes more than 20,400 journals. A journal’s entry in the directory may contain up to 43 different pieces of data, including 15 links, that have been checked and verified by hand. With this consultation, DOAJ would like to review how to maximise its impact with limited resources.
Gold Leaf will collect feedback with the survey and then follow up with individual interviews for a select group of volunteers. The survey should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. A PDF version of the questions is available for download.
DOAJ and Gold Leaf will publicly share the headline results from this consultation and email them to each participant who has asked for them.
All information provided will be treated with the strictest confidence. Neither you nor your organisation will be identified in the report or other outputs from the survey. DOAJ will store any optional personal data collected following its Privacy Policy. We will delete all personal data once we have completed this project.
Take the survey! It will close on Friday 6 May 2024.
If you have any questions, please contact Annika Bennett, Linda Bennett or Brigitte Shull.
Thank you for contributing to the improvement of DOAJ!