What are the inclusion criteria for journals?

Our inclusion criteria for journals are as follows:

• Journals must have a valid ISSN listed on their website — to be valid it must appear on the ISSN portal.
• Each website must clearly state its editorial board.
• All licences, open access policies and copyright statements must be readily available online.
• We will only add the policy as it appears on the publisher/journal website – if the policy does not state something, we will not include it in the policy information.
• Your open access policy should include at least one way that an article (any version – published/accepted/submitted) can be made open access.
• In return for listing journals in our dataset, we expect our publishers to help us maintain the quality of the data that we hold. This means alerting us to changes in the publisher, policy or metadata information in good time for us to make the amendments.
• We do not include monographic series or conference proceedings in our data. (Though book policies can be added through the OA books route).