DOAJ is 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. To assist libraries and indexers keep their lists up-to-date, we make public a list of journals that have been accepted into or removed from DOAJ but we will not discuss specific details of an application with anyone apart from the applicant. Neither will we discuss individual publishers or applications with members of the public unless we believe that, by doing so, we will be making a positive contribution to the open access community

The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals.

As an ambassador of DOAJ India. https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/the-doaj-ambassadors-biographies/

I have converted information and work of DOAJ in marathi script for local users which will be helpful to understand open 

access concept and DOAJ work 

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Open Access Week is getting celebrated all over the world from 25 October to 29 October 2016 Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Over the past decade, Open Access has become central to advancing the interests of researchers, scholars, students, businesses, and the public as well as librarians. 

This Year AISSMS College of Engineering Library is planning open access week on “Doors are open : Know about Open Access” theme. We are planing two days workshop on Open Access. This workshop aims at sensitizing librarians teachers and Research students by giving them information about OPEN Access movement. This workshop will help them to learn more about Open Access, To Adopt Open Access Practices Help Educate Their Colleagues at their institutional Campus.We are planning Open Access Competition and many more activities.

We are thankful to INASP for supporting this activities.

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ( https://doaj.org/)  launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden  is a centrally, publicly and internationally available community-curated database containing information on high quality open access journal titles across all disciplines, maintained by a team of professionals. It aims to become the default service for finding quality, peer-reviewed open access publications.

Only trusted scholarly journal titles adhering to DOAJ criteria are considered for inclusion. The criteria includes among others:

?     Peer-review of all articles published by experts in the field, prior to publication;

?     Transparency, also in terms of Article Processing Charges (APCs);

?     Publishing at least five (5) high quality scholarly journal articles per annum;

?     A carefully selected Editorial Board, with affiliations and countries clearly indicated;

?     Clear copyright and licensing terms; and

?     An open access policy, supporting access and reuse of content published without any barriers, to advance science and for the scientific dialogue to continue.

DOAJ has appointed Ambassadors to assist with identifying DOAJ compliant journals. I am working  as one of the DOAJ Ambassador for the India. We will work to improve Open Access in India.

I request to all of you please support our activities in India. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have questions regarding the application of Journals , or regarding quality open access journal publishing in general.