Thus, DOAJ additionally emphasizes that the journal complies with accepted publishing standards and makes efforts to ensure transparency and reproducibility of research results. In total, 40 journals published in Russia have DOAJ Seal.
The journal must meet the following criteria to receive the DOAJ Seal:
- ensure long-term storage of materials in reliable repositories;
- assign permanent identifiers to articles (most often DOIs);
- regularly transfer metadata to DOAJ;
- support the distribution of content under open licenses (more often - Creative Commons);
- place information about the license in the PDF file of the article;
- allow authors to retain all rights when publishing in the journal;
- have a self-archiving policy that allows publication of preprints on appropriate resources, as well as accepted manuscripts and postprints in repositories without an embargo period.
Source: https://neicon.ru/about/news/618-zhurnaly-na-platforme-elpub-poluchili-znak-otlichiya-doaj-seal-2
