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Table 3.

Criteria to receive the Seal of Approval for Open Access Journals (DOAJ Seal) by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

DOAJ Seal Criteria
The DOAJ Seal is given to journals that fulfil the following criteria: a permanent identifier within the published papers is provided provide DOAJ with article metadata deposit content with a long‐term digital preservation or archiving programme embed machine‐readable, CC licensing information in articles allow generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY‐SA or CC BY‐NC licences have a deposit policy registered with a deposit policy registry allow the author to maintain the copyright without restrictions
Available at https://doaj.org/publishers#seal; Accessed 20 November, 2017

DOAJ Seal Criteria

The DOAJ Seal is given to journals that fulfil the following criteria:

a permanent identifier within the published papers is provided
provide DOAJ with article metadata
deposit content with a long‐term digital preservation or archiving programme
embed machine‐readable, CC licensing information in articles
allow generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY‐SA or CC BY‐NC licences
have a deposit policy registered with a deposit policy registry
allow the author to maintain the copyright without restrictions

Available at https://doaj.org/publishers#seal; Accessed 20 November, 2017