nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ff5448e7c90de564 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250730s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ff5448e7c90de564 doi eng 342 23 Di Rosa, Elena Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-8235-2517 Who is In, Who is Out? - Verfassungsblog’s Response to its Removal from DOAJ Di Rosa, Elena Verfassungsblog 2025-07-30 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In our blog post “Access Denied”, we informed the research and Open Access (OA) community about Verfassungsblog’s removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). With the publication of our appeal –  which was ultimately rejected by DOAJ – we also announced our intention to initiate a broader discussion with DOAJ and the OA community about the directory’s admission and removal processes. As DOAJ is a central and established instrument in the Open Access movement, we believe this discussion is vital. To enable an open and constructive conversation, I will revisit the arguments from our appeal and connect them to broader issues of Open Access publishing, funding, and DOAJ’s role in this process. Since Matt Hodgkinson, Head of Editorial at DOAJ, has recently published DOAJ’s response, I will engage with some of his key points. CC BY-SA 4.0 DOAJ Diamond OA Open Access Open Access bibliodiversity (DE-588)7525775-0 gnd Open Access Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/who-is-in-who-is-out/ raw object