Indexing, identifiers and preservation
Where the journal’s metadata goes, which identifiers it carries, and how the record is preserved. Each of these is a different thing, and they are set out separately.
- ISSN
- 2688-5328
- DOI prefix
- 10.14302/issn.2688-5328
- Metadata
- OAI-PMH
- Preservation
- Portico
Journal and article identifiers
The journal is registered with the ISSN 2688-5328, which is the identifier to use when citing or cataloging the title.
Open Access Pub registers article DOIs with Crossref under the prefix 10.14302/issn.2688-5328. Registration is carried out per article, and a DOI resolves once the deposit has been processed. Checked on 23 September 2026, eight of the journal’s ten published records resolved at Crossref.
Registration gives each registered article a persistent identifier and a stable link to it. That function is distinct from selective journal-level indexing or database inclusion, which is recorded separately in the section below.
Metadata harvesting and discovery services
The publisher operates an OAI-PMH endpoint, which allows libraries, aggregators and repositories to harvest the journal’s article metadata in a standard form.
Article pages carry structured citation metadata of the kind discovery services read. Whether a particular service has ingested this journal is a question for that service, and the journal publishes a claim only where the status has been confirmed with the service itself.
This section lists the selective journal-level indexes that have confirmed coverage of the title, checked with each service directly. It was last reviewed on 23 September 2026 and stands empty until a service confirms.
PubMed Central through NIHMS
Eligible NIH-funded manuscripts may be deposited individually in PubMed Central through the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
This route is for the individual manuscript and is driven by the funding attached to it. It is a deposit made for one article, and it is a different thing from a journal being indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE or PubMed Central.
Keeping the record available
Preservation is what keeps an article readable after the people and systems that published it have moved on.
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.