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How to comply with Plan S (for OJS users)

FJN has commissioned  PKP, the makers of OJS, to create and run a webinar on this topic. The webinar was held on 28 July 2022. We are donating the accompanying resources (below) to the Diamond OA community, and hope they are useful. Thanks to Kate Shuttleworth and Mariya Maistrovskaya of PKP for their work on… Read More »

Why we promote the “diamond” OA model

We see the diamond open-access model as the only long-term sustainable model for scholarly publishing. For-profit publishing creates conflicts of interest that undermine the integrity of scholarship, whether the business model is based on charging readers or on charging authors. When publishers charge readers, there is competition to publish exciting findings that make news and… Read More »

FJN journal survey 2022

We recently surveyed all our accepted journals (currently there are 68). A summary of the results follows. 84% have a proper archival/preservation solution in place 87% assign DOIs to their papers 86% are in DOAJ 54% have a formal legal organization that owns the journal 29% publish basic statistics annually 29%  publish XML and 20%… Read More »

FJN grants awarded

In June 2021 the board awarded the first grants to FJN journals. Recipients were: Journal of Psychology UNLP for editing software, web design and infrastructure NZ Journal of Math for historical DOIs and annual CrossRef membership The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics for recent DOIs and annual CrossRef membership. We hope for more applicants next time!

FJN reorganization

As of April 2020, Free Journal Network is legally registered as a nonprofit corporation in Massachusetts, USA. As part of this process, it now has a Board of Directors with President, Treasurer and Secretary. The website gives more details.

New membership criteria for 2019

The FJN membership criteria for 2019 have been revised. In general, after admission using the criteria in year X, each journal will be assessed at year X+5 against the current criteria for that year. Thus existing members do not have to hurry to improve their practices, but eventually do need to react in order to… Read More »

Recent publicity for FJN

Several blog posts and articles have been published in the last few months: August 2018 Notices of the American Mathematical Society: article by Mark C. Wilson June 2018 Blog post in LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog June 2018 Interview with Mark C. Wilson for Scholastica blog

FJN now has a logo

Thanks to Jonathan Klawitter, we are represented by half an elephant head! Member journals are encouraged to use the logo as appropriate.