Wipawin, NamtipWongkaew, ChatreeSarawanawong, Jutharat2025-09-242025-09-242017Data Seal is now live on the site.(2018) Retrieved from https://blog.doaj.org/2015/06/11/doaj-seal-is-now-live-on-the-site/ Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding (p. 24). Paris, Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding (2007). Pryor, G. Managing research data. London : Facet Publishing (2012) Quality Guidelines for Digital Research Data. (2013). Retrieved 25 February from http://datasealofapproval.org/sites/default/files/DSA%20booklet_2-0_engels_mei2010.pdf Thai-Journal Citation Index Center. (2018) Retrieved from http://www.kmutt.ac.th/jif/public_html/ Wipawin, N. (2017). Research Data Quality Accreditation Standards in Institutional Repositories : A Case Study of Thailand. Proceedings of Korean Library and Information Science Society. 26-27 May, 2017, Kongju National University. Gongju, Korea. Wipawin, N. (2016) The Readiness of Thai Universities towards the Research Data Quality Accreditation Standards in Institutional Repositories. Proceedings of ETD 2016 "Data and Dissertations". 19th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 11-13 July 2016. University of Lille, France Wipawin, N. (2016) Research Data Services in Thai Research Universities. Proceedings of ISS 2016 International Conference on Information and Social Science. 23-27 June 2016. Sapporo, Japan Wongkaew, C. and others.(2015) The Journal Evaluation in Thai Citation Index Database. Chiangmai : Lanna Rachamonkol Technology Universityhttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6337There are 88 journals on the lists of Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Seal of Approval in 2017 which is awarded to journals that fulfills a set of criteria related to accessibility, openness, discoverability, reuse and author rights to identify the highest level of openness. The Seal does not guarantee the scholarly quality of the material published in the journal. The criteria to prepare for applying the DOAJ Seal, the journal must have an archival and preservation arrangement with an external party, provide permanent identifiers in the published content such as DOIs, provide article level metadata to DOAJ, embed machine-readable licensing information in article level metadata, allow reuse and remixing of content, have a deposit policy registered in a deposit policy directory and allow the author to hold the copyright without restriction. If journals in Thai-Journal Citation Index would like to be awarded DOAJ Seal, this articles identify the preparation guidelines.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttps://2018.ifla.org/open accessOpen Access JournalDOAJ Seal of Approval