The value of open metadata: how DOAJ supports and is supported by the community

As an adopter of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure and a supporter of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, DOAJ is committed to making its metadata openly available for the community’s use. DOAJ’s metadata is reused across library systems, discovery services, search engines and research tools that help identify quality open-access journals.

In 2024, DOAJ has received sustaining support from Digital Science, EBSCO, NERAC, OA.Works. OCLC, OurResearch, SciFree, Sirsi Dynix and others. Their support contributes directly to DOAJ’s work in evaluating journals and curating metadata.