DOAJ
DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals, is an independent nonprofit index of open-access journals that have passed its review, with metadata under CC0. Through ScholarMuse an agent can look up a journal by name or ISSN and learn whether it is in DOAJ, what it charges authors, which licences it uses and how it runs peer review.
ScholarMuse tools: journal_info. Each successful call uses credits.
The web tool runs without an account, up to 5 runs a day per visitor.
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What your agent gets back
Every record carries id, source, title, url, license, attribution and retrievedAt. The fields below are the data that comes from DOAJ.
journal_info
DOAJ fields are present only when the journal is listed. Otherwise inDoaj is false and the record is built from OpenAlex.
- inDoaj
- Whether the journal is listed in DOAJ
- inDoajSince
- Date the DOAJ record was created
- doajUrl
- Link to the journal's DOAJ page
- hasApc
- Whether the journal charges an APC
- apcAmount
- Highest APC the journal reports
- apcCurrency
- Currency of the APC
- apcSource
- doaj or openalex, whichever supplied the fee
- licenses
- Licence types the journal uses, such as CC BY
- peerReview
- Review process the journal states
- weeksToPublication
- Average weeks from submission to publication
- publisher
- Publisher name from DOAJ when listed
- country
- Publisher country code
What it covers
- Journal records in DOAJ, looked up by print or electronic ISSN, or by title.
- Fees, licences and review process are the values the journal itself reported to DOAJ.
- The DOAJ answer is merged with the journal's OpenAlex profile into one record.
Limits
- One journal per call. DOAJ's article index is not searched, only its journal records.
- If no ISSN is known, DOAJ is searched by title and only an exact title match is accepted.
- Not being in DOAJ does not by itself mean a journal is untrustworthy. Subscription and hybrid journals are not eligible for DOAJ.
- Subjects, languages, waiver policy and other charges are not returned.
How ScholarMuse reaches DOAJ
The connector calls doaj.org/api/v4/search/journals directly, querying by ISSN or by exact title. No API key is sent. The tool looks the journal up in OpenAlex first to collect its ISSNs, then tries up to three of them in DOAJ.
Responses are cached for up to 7 days, so a journal added to or removed from DOAJ this week can take that long to show.
API key: the upstream API can be called without one, so you do not add one.
Licence and attribution
Licence: CC0-1.0
Journal metadata from the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org), CC0.
Records that come from DOAJ carry this licence and attribution. When you cite the data in a paper, follow DOAJ's own citation guidance.
