November 2026
It was wonderful to see so many editors celebrate ten years of Tuwhera with us on the 22nd . Thank you to those editors who participated in our mini-documentary - available here https://tuwhera.aut.ac.nz/.
We also have some photos of the event here.
We are continuing to upgrade to 3.4. This work has been slower than expected due to issues with DOI links breaking. We also prefer to wait for the journal team to not be actively publishing when the update happens as 3.4 is quite different to 3.1 and you'll need to learn the new system.
The Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) is a registry of scholar-led, fee-free Open Access (Diamond OA) journals designed to increase the visibility, recognition, and discoverability of academic publications that charge no fees to authors or readers and all our OJS 3.4 journals are on it. We use an API plug-in so new articles automatically get added – have a look here https://ddh.edch.eu/en. The plug-in only works on 3.4 so as we upgrade journals – they'll be added to the hub.
The Tuwhera team is very lucky to have Elwyn Sheehan seconded to us while Thais is on secondment to the Library's Digital Development Team. Elwyn comes to us from the Learning and Academic Engagement Team where she was an Information Literacy Librarian so you may have worked with her before. Elwyn is able to help with any issues - technical or editorial!
We've been having issues with some of the journals and the repository being crawled by the Google Scholar bots. There is no clear reason - sometimes some articles within one issue are indexed while others are not. What's important is don't make changes after an issue is published, republishing and changing dates is one way we think the crawler bots get confused.
Google Scholar can be unreliable is an index, recently is has been indexing fake journals and other non-scholarly content. Being indexed in credible sites such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Diamond Discovery Hub is much more important and we strongly encourage you to apply to DOAJ. We also suggest sending an expression of interest to Informit (Content selection is based on relevance to the Australian and New Zealand region and Asia-Pacific focus, quality and peer-review, identified need for content in that subject area)
It’s very important that journals have an AI policy to preserve accountability and ensure transparency around scientific content. Clear policies and rules help manage how authors and reviewers use AI technologies and help maintain the ethical standards of a journal. We recommend looking at the policies of other journals for ideas. Some Tuwhera examples include: