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DOAJ API Guide

Overview

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Founded in 2003, DOAJ currently indexes over 20,000 journals and 9 million articles from 130 countries, covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

DOAJ serves as a quality filter for open access publishing. Journals must meet strict criteria to be included, including editorial review, transparent policies, and adherence to open access principles. This makes DOAJ particularly valuable for researchers who need to verify whether a journal is a legitimate open access outlet, librarians curating discovery systems, and developers building tools that surface OA content.

The DOAJ API provides free, unauthenticated access to search and retrieve journal and article metadata. All data is available under a CC BY-SA license. The API returns JSON and supports Elasticsearch-style queries for advanced filtering.

Authentication

No authentication required. The DOAJ API is fully open and free to use. No API key, registration, or email is needed. There are no published rate limits, but users should be respectful and avoid sending excessive concurrent requests. For bulk data access, DOAJ provides data dumps at https://doaj.org/docs/public-data-dump/.

Core Endpoints

Article Search: Find Open Access Articles

URL: GET https://doaj.org/api/search/articles/{search_query}
Parameters:
Param Type Required Description
search_query string Yes Search query (URL path parameter, supports field-specific search)
page integer No Page number (default: 1)

Param	Type	Required	Description
search_query	string	Yes	Search query (URL path parameter, supports field-specific search)
page	integer	No	Page number (default: 1)

URL: GET https://doaj.org/api/search/journals/{search_query}
Parameters:
Param Type Required Description
search_query string Yes Journal search query
page integer No Page number (default: 1)
pageSize integer No Results per page (default: 10, max: 100)

Param	Type	Required	Description
search_query	string	Yes	Journal search query
page	integer	No	Page number (default: 1)
pageSize	integer	No	Results per page (default: 10, max: 100)

Example:

curl "https://doaj.org/api/search/journals/bioinformatics?page=1&pageSize=5"

Response: JSON with journal records containing bibjson with title, alternative_title, identifier (ISSN, EISSN), publisher, institution, subject, license, apc (article processing charge info), language, and editorial.review_process.

URL: GET https://doaj.org/api/search/articles/doi:{doi}
Parameters:
Param Type Required Description
doi string Yes The DOI to look up

Param	Type	Required	Description
doi	string	Yes	The DOI to look up

Example:

curl "https://doaj.org/api/search/articles/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213676"

Response: JSON with matching article records from DOAJ-indexed journals.

URL: GET https://doaj.org/api/search/journals/issn:{issn}
Parameters:
Param Type Required Description
issn string Yes The ISSN to look up

Param	Type	Required	Description
issn	string	Yes	The ISSN to look up

Example:

curl "https://doaj.org/api/search/journals/issn:1932-6203"

Response: JSON with journal record including full metadata and policies.

curl -s "https://doaj.org/api/search/journals/issn:2045-2322" | jq '{total: .total, title: .results[0].bibjson.title, publisher: .results[0].bibjson.publisher.name, license: .results[0].bibjson.license[0].type}'

curl -s "https://doaj.org/api/search/articles/bibjson.subject.term:neuroscience?pageSize=20" | jq '.results[] | {title: .bibjson.title, journal: .bibjson.journal.title, url: .bibjson.link[0].url, year: .bibjson.year}'

curl -s "https://doaj.org/api/search/journals/issn:2041-1723" | jq '.results[0].bibjson | {title: .title, has_apc: .apc.has_apc, apc_amount: .apc.max[0].price, currency: .apc.max[0].currency}'

43-wentorai-research-plugins-skills-literature-fulltext-doaj-api

Summary

SKILL.md

DOAJ API Guide

Overview

Authentication

Core Endpoints

Article Search: Find Open Access Articles

Journal Search: Find Open Access Journals

Article by DOI: Direct Lookup

Journal by ISSN: Direct Lookup

Rate Limits

Common Patterns

Verify Journal Quality

Find OA Articles in a Subject Area

Check APC (Article Processing Charge) Information

References

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