Directory of Open Access Journals

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Premium Metadata Services Price determined case by case · Waivers available for specified users · Premium OAI-PMH, public data dump, and journal CSV provide more current metadata doaj.org · 3 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Full-text access: Yes
Advanced search: Yes
Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
Content types: journals, articles, journal metadata, article metadata, full-text links
Theses and dissertations: No
Conference proceedings: No
Institutional access: No

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Directory: DOAJ is an index of open access journals and provides a website search for journals and articles.
Mission: DOAJ aims to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage, and impact of quality peer-reviewed open access scholarly research journals globally.
Free access: DOAJ says it is committed to keeping its primary services and metadata open to everyone.
Metadata access: Journal and article metadata are available through the Atom feed, OAI-PMH, journal CSV, API, public data dump, and DOAJ website search.
Metadata integrations: DOAJ lists OpenAlex, OCLC, EBSCO products, Clarivate products, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Google, Dimensions, and CONSER MARC records among services incorporating its metadata.
Data dump limit: Access to full public data dumps is granted case by case; monthly dumps are available to all users and daily dumps to premium metadata service users.
Premium metadata: Premium services provide more current OAI-PMH data, daily public data dumps, and journal CSV data updated within an hour.
Privacy: DOAJ says it does not share names or email addresses outside the organisation unless it has sought explicit permission.
Support: Users can contact the Help Desk with feedback, questions about DOAJ's website or services, or complaints.
Who it serves: DOAJ's mission serves quality peer-reviewed open access scholarly research journals across disciplines, geographies, and languages.
Organisation: DOAJ is run and managed by the DOAJ Foundation, a non-profit community-governed Danish foundation registered in Roskilde.
Headquarters: Roskilde, Denmark
Founded: Lars Bjørnshauge founded DOAJ in 2003.

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