Hi all A French colleague inquired whether JoPP was archived in any databases including the "easier to get into" Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This seems like a pretty good fit for us. I checked it out and it does not seem too bad so I'm willing to give it a go. https://doaj.org/application/new However there are a few questions I'm not sure about. I've copied them all below but the most important issues IMO are PDFs and copyright. PDF We used to have a PDF generator for articles. This broke and was meant to be repaired...? This absence limits our ability to be picked up by search engines and archived in other databases. @Peter (and maxigas): is there a solution in sight? COPYRIGHT PDFs would feature this text: "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License" Now the only indication we have about copyright is "All the contents of this journal are in the public domain" (on the front page) which is a bit vague. So should we change this text to the CC licence? Any reason not to? Finally there are some questions at the end about author ownership - I assume we give all rights to authors? @Our legal experts (Angela, Steve...): any thoughts on this? cheers Mathieu SEE QUESTION AND POSSIBLE ANSWERS BELOW Publisher => Self-published? Platform, Host or Aggregator => Peter? What digital archiving policy does the journal use? => No policy in place? Does the journal allow software/spiders to automatically crawl the journal content (also known as text mining)? => No? Which article identifiers does the journal use? => None? DOI Handles ARK Please indicate which formats of full text are available * PDF HTML ePUB XML Other What is the URL for the journal's Open Access statement? Does the journal embed or display simple machine-readable CC licensing information in its articles? Yes No Copyright and Permissions Copyright & Licensing help 52) Does the journal allow the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions? * Yes No Other 54) Will the journal allow the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions?