We are delighted to announce that the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change (JASC) has been officially listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and has received the DOAJ Seal, awarded to the approximately 10% of DOAJ-listed demonstrating best practices in open access publishing.

The Directory of Open Access Journals "works to build an equitable and diverse scholarly ecosystem where trusted research can be accessed globally without barriers," with a mission "to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language." Globally, DOAJ's criteria have become a gold standard for open access publishing.

JASC's inclusion in DOAJ not only means that the majority of research grant providers and doctoral committees will accept publications in JASC as fulfilling their criteria of excellence, but the granting of the Seal also puts JASC at the forefront of best practices, including those around author rights.

To be awarded the Seal, a journal must meet seven criteria, relating to best practices in long-term preservation, use of persistent identifiers, discoverability, reuse policies, and authors' rights. The seal recognizes what JASC has been working to foster since its inception: creating a generative environment for innovative scholarship, which is openly accessible to readers and where authors retain full unrestricted copyright and publishing rights of their material.

We look forward to further evolution and experimentation of JASC and its next upcoming issue in November, 2024.

To explore the most recent and past issues of JASC, visit here. 

To learn more about submitting your work to JASC, see this page.