Dear Professionals, Many of the Open Access journals was launched and then listed in DOAJ which are found to be predatory or simply fraud. The publishers of these journals did not maintained any standard or conformed to any ethics in scholarly communication world. Open access journals published from India stood at the top in the list 9,200 potential predatory journals compiled by librarian Jeffrey Beall ( Nature 495,433–435; 2013 ). Therefore, DOAJ recently tightens its grip to include an OA journals in its Directory. See the recent article in the Nature by Richard Van Nooren ****************** Rabishankar Giri Presidency University (erstwhile Presidency college) Kolkata http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9459-8258 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.