Indexing and discoverability
Indexing and Discoverability
Where the record of Journal of Zoological Research is registered, how it is made findable, and how it is preserved.
- ISSN 2694-2275
- DOI prefix 10.14302
- OAI-PMH 2.0
How to read this page
Six different things, kept apart
Carrying an identifier, registering a DOI, offering metadata for harvesting, being reachable through a search service, being selected by a curated database and being preserved are six separate functions, and a journal can stand differently in each.
They are set out one at a time below, each with what it means for an author and where it can be checked. A DOI registers an identifier and its metadata; harvesting offers records for collection; a search service brings a reader to the article; selective indexing is a database's judgment about the journal as a whole; preservation is what happens to the record over time. Each section names which of the six it is.
1 · Journal identifiers
The journal's own identifier
- ISSN
- 2694-2275. The International Standard Serial Number identifies this journal as a serial publication and distinguishes it from any similarly titled title. It is an identifier, not an assessment of the journal.
- Title of record
- Journal of Zoological Research, published by Open Access Pub.
2 · DOI registration
Persistent identifiers for articles
The journal registers article DOIs with Crossref under the publisher prefix 10.14302.
A DOI is the identifier a citation should carry: it resolves to the article's page wherever that page moves to. Registration also deposits the article's metadata — title, authors, journal, volume, issue, pages and date — into Crossref, where other services collect it.
The journal's Crossref record, and the article records registered against it, can be read directly at api.crossref.org/journals/2694-2275. Registration is an administrative service: it makes the article citable and its metadata available, and the judgment about a journal belongs to the curated databases described under 5.
3 · Metadata harvesting
Metadata offered for collection
The publisher runs an OAI-PMH 2.0 repository, so any service that harvests by that protocol can collect the journal's article metadata.
- Base URL
- https://openaccesspub.org/oai
- Repository
- Open Access Pub, protocol version 2.0.
- What it enables
- Aggregators, union catalogs and institutional discovery layers can collect records without a separate agreement. Harvesting makes metadata available for collection; whether a given service collects it is that service's decision.
4 · Search and discovery
How readers find an article
Article pages are built so that search and discovery services can read what they need from them.
Each article page carries the Google Scholar citation metadata tags — journal title, ISSN, author, title, publication date, volume, issue, first page and DOI — in the form that service reads, alongside a direct link to the full text. The same metadata reaches scholarly graph services through the Crossref deposit described above.
Discovery services collect broadly and apply their own criteria and timetables. Being findable through a search service describes how a reader reaches an article; it is a separate thing from selection by a curated database.
5 · Selective journal-level indexing
Selection by a curated database
Selective indexing is the one function on this page that involves a judgment about the journal.
A curated database — MEDLINE, Scopus, the Web of Science collections, DOAJ and others — assesses a journal against its own published criteria, on its own timetable, and lists it as a whole. Each maintains a public record of the titles it has selected, and each is the authority on its own listing.
Authors who need a journal's current standing in a particular database for a funder, a thesis regulation or an assessment exercise are welcome to write to the editorial office at [email protected], which confirms the journal's position with that database and the date it was last checked.
6 · Digital preservation
Keeping the record available
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish.
Preservation is an archival arrangement rather than a discovery service or a selection decision. It concerns what happens to the record over time.
Repository routes for authors
Depositing an article in a repository
Because articles are published under CC BY 4.0 with authors retaining copyright, the published version can be deposited immediately.
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
That route concerns an individual manuscript and the funding behind it. It is separate from selective journal-level indexing, and a deposit made through it says nothing about whether the journal as a whole is listed in PubMed, MEDLINE or PubMed Central.
Authors may also deposit the published version in an institutional or subject repository, or on a personal or departmental page, at any time. Include the DOI in the deposited record so the repository copy and the version of record stay linked.
Related
Where the record itself is
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Every issue and every record the journal has published.
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What authors keep, and what deposit is permitted.
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Data availability, corrections and the scholarly record.
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Preparation, deposition and accession requirements.
Digital preservation
This journal’s content is committed to Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive run by ITHAKA (the organization behind JSTOR). As articles are deposited they enter Portico’s permanent archive, so the scholarly record stays available for the long term — even if a title one day ceases to publish. Read our preservation policy.