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The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The Journal has attained the DOAJ Seal 

The DOAJ Seal is a mark of certification for open access journals, awarded by DOAJ to journals that achieve a high level of openness, adhere to Best Practice and high publishing standards. To receive the Seal, the journal must comply with the following seven conditions:

• use DOIs as permanent identifiers;
• provides DOAJ with article metadata;
• deposits content with a long term digital preservation or archiving program;
• embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles;
• allows generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC license;
• has a deposit policy registered wíth a deposit policy registry;
• allows the author to hold the copyright without restrictions.

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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to around 19,960 high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Only 8% of journals indexed by DOAJ have been awarded the Seal, and of these only nine journals from Australia have the Seal.

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