6 June 2025
The Toolkit was launched in June 2023 in English and French by DOAJ, OASPA and an international independent board of editors. It is now also available in Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish. Usage of the Toolkit continues to grow and the number of downloads at Zenodo is high. The Editorial Board is reviewing and updating the content. New content is being created.
The Open Access Journals Toolkit is an independent, open and multilingual resource for anyone involved in journal publishing. It aims to help individuals and organisations understand best practices around launching and running scholarly journals. From the start, it was intended as an open resource with specially created content for a global audience. A specially appointed international Editorial Board was commissioned to create the content, which they also peer review. The board is responsible for reviewing and updating the content, as well as writing new material.
We are very pleased to announce today that we have three new languages of the Toolkit available: Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish! The different language versions of the website are available here:
Arabic: https://www.oajournals-toolkit.org/ar/
English: https://www.oajournals-toolkit.org/
French: https://www.oajournals-toolkit.org/fr
Portuguese: https://www.oajournals-toolkit.org/pt-pt
Spanish: https://www.oajournals-toolkit.org/es
We thank Scielo Brazil and Scielo Mexico for the Portuguese and Spanish translations and Knowledge E and Mahmoud Khalifa, DOAJ Managing Editor and Ambassador, for the Arabic translation. With the generous help of these organisations/individuals, we reach a wider global community of users, as well as sticking to our original aim of maintaining an open and global resource.