{"id":2604,"date":"2020-08-06T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:09:35","slug":"myth-busting-article-content-will-appear-in-doaj-once-a-journal-is-accepted-for-indexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2020\/08\/06\/myth-busting-article-content-will-appear-in-doaj-once-a-journal-is-accepted-for-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth: &#8220;Article content will appear in DOAJ once a journal is accepted for indexing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>This is a myth.<\/h4>\n<p>Unlike some other indexing services, if a journal is accepted into DOAJ, we won&#8217;t automatically go and collect published content. Publishers have to send the content to us, either via our API or as XML.<\/p>\n<p>Getting a journal accepted into DOAJ is a great feeling and it ensures that the metadata about your journal, its practices and publishing qualities will be integrated into many <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2019\/01\/08\/are-you-using-an-up-to-date-version-of-doaj-metadata-apparently-not\/\">other discovery services<\/a>. However, there is one extra step which should be done to really improve your journal&#8217;s impact: article metadata should be uploaded to us.<\/p>\n<p>DOAJ has never gone out and collected metadata from journal websites and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2015\/05\/29\/we-are-getting-better-at-ingesting-metadata-until-then-give-us-your-metadata\/\">we have always relied on publishers providing it to us<\/a>. The reason for this is simple: we simply don&#8217;t have the resources to build the many integrations that would be needed to pull published content from the thousands of journals in DOAJ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JSON or XML, manual or automated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are several ways in which metadata can be provided to us, some of them more automated than others:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Our API allows publishers to connect to DOAJ and send us JSON. This is highly automated.<\/li>\n<li>Publishers on the OJS platform&#8211;of which there are many with journals in DOAJ&#8211;are able to use <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.pkp.sfu.ca\/admin-guide\/en\/data-import-and-export\">a DOAJ XML plugin<\/a> that the good people at PKP have created. This is semi-automated.<\/li>\n<li>There is an option to upload XML to us via your DOAJ account. You don&#8217;t need to upload one article at a time. You can upload as many as you like in one file, as long as the file is less than 250Mb. And you can send us DOAJ XML or <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.doaj.org\/de\/2020\/02\/12\/doaj-to-add-crossref-compatibility\/\">Crossref XML<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You can use our article metadata input form and input the article metadata by hand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If your journal is part of a larger publishing platform which provides discovery services to you, ask them what options they can offer for getting your article metadata into DOAJ.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions, or if you need help with sending us your metadata, leave a comment here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a myth. Unlike some other indexing services, if a journal is accepted into DOAJ, we won&#8217;t automatically go and collect published content. Publishers have to send the content to us, either via our API or as XML. 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