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Oggetto: WANTED Turkish and Farsi/Persian speakers: a call for
volunteer DOAJ Associate Editors
Data: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:33:59 +0000
Mittente: DOAJ <>
WANTED Turkish and Farsi/Persian speakers: a call for volunteer DOAJ
Associate Editors
DOAJ has a network of 130 skilled volunteers
<https://doaj.org/volunteers> who spend a few hours a week processing
new journal applications for us. Would you like to join us? We are now
recruiting volunteers who understand */Farsi and/or Turkish/*. (You do
not have to be a native speaker.) You must also be proficient in written
and spoken English.
As a DOAJ Associate Editor you will be expected to do a few hours of
voluntary, unpaid work a week. You will be provided with training
materials to help you carry out your duties. The work you do will
directly contribute to the quality, reputation and prominence of open
access, scholarly publishing across the world.
*Requirements of the Role
*In your role as DOAJ Associate Editor, you will be guided and
supervised by an Editor and a Managing Editor.
Successful candidates will:
* have a good knowledge about Open Access (OA);
* be passionate about OA;
* have a good knowledge about OA developments in scholarly publishing;
* have a working understanding of OA publishing practices.
In your work you must:
* be confident working online and have stable access to the internet;
* support and promote DOAJ and its goals, and be a DOAJ advocate;
* maintain confidentiality around information to which you have access
in the DOAJ database and DOAJ Google Drive, particularly
applications you review;
* assist in evaluating journals suggested to DOAJ in your specialist
language;
* adhere to the recommendations around keeping personal data secure
and confidential, as laid out by the DOAJ privacy policy
<https://doaj.org/privacy>.
/Please note that if you are associated in any way with a journal in
DOAJ, you may not be selected due to a conflict of interest./
*If you wish to apply *_please complete and submit this form
<http://goo.gl/forms/QLbt6ZsPXq>_*.*
At this time, applications are only open to those with the requested
languages skills. All other applications will be rejected. We will
advertise further volunteering opportunities on this blog so please
follow us here or on Twitter. @doajplus
Thank you for considering volunteering for DOAJ!
*DOAJ Mission
*DOAJ’s mission is 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. DOAJ will work with editors, publishers and
journal owners to help them understand the value of best practice
publishing and standards and apply those to their own operations. DOAJ
is committed to being 100% independent and maintaining all of its
services and metadata as free to use or reuse for everyone.