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Why index your journal in DOAJ?

DOAJ's global team helps publishers comply with best practice in open access publishing, to fulfil open access mandates and attract authors looking for quality journals.

The DOAJ index offers a voice to your journals, in any language or subject, increasing their visibility and ability to comply with best publishing practices - opening the door to discovery of research around the world.

Why your journal should be indexed in DOAJ


	Reputation and prominence	DOAJ is the most important community-driven, open access service in the world and has a reputation for advocating best practices and standards in open access. By indexing your journal in DOAJ, its reputation and prominence will be enhanced.
	Standards and best practice	DOAJ's basic criteria for inclusion have become the accepted way of measuring an open access journal's adherence to standards in scholarly publishing. We can help you adopt a range of ethical and quality standards, making your journals more attractive publishing channels. DOAJ is committed to combatting questionable publishers and questionable publishing practices, helping to protect researchers from becoming trapped by unethical journals.
	Funding and compliance	Open access publication funds often require that authors who want funding must publish in journals that are included in DOAJ. Indexing in DOAJ makes your journals compliant with many initiatives and programmes around the world, for example Plan S in Europe or Capes/Qualis in Brazil.
	Discoverability and visibility	DOAJ metadata is free for anyone to collect and use, which means it is easily incorporated into search engines and discovery services. It is then propagated across the internet. If you provide us with article metadata for your journal, this will be supplied to all the major aggregators and the many research organisations and university library portals who use our widgets, RSS feeds, API and other services. Indexing your journal in DOAJ is likely to increase traffic to your website and give greater exposure to your published content. Levels of traffic to a journal website typically increase threefold after inclusion in DOAJ. Your journal's visibility in search engines, such as Google, will improve.
	International coverage	Our database includes more open access journals from a diverse list of countries than any of the other major indexing services. We have a global editorial team via a network of Managing Editors, Ambassadors and volunteers, so we will do our best to offer local support in your language. We promise you that information about your journal will be seen around the world.