{"title":"From the Editors","authors":"Tamer Balci, Christopher Miller","doi":"10.24819/netsol2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24819/netsol2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"We embarked on a journey nearly eight years ago in fall 2015 at a time predatory journals were slowly littering the academic landscape. Between the predatory journals publishing nearly anything for which authors were willing to pay their hefty publication fees and conditional open-access journals charging exorbitant fees to authors to make an article open-access, relatively fewer journals follow a fully open-access and no-fee policy. Because of this rare quality, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) listed NETSOL in its coveted Diamond Journals list.","PeriodicalId":489201,"journal":{"name":"New trends in social and liberal sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135237545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}