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Public data dump

An exportable version of the journal metadata is available as a CSV file.

Full data-dumps of the entire journal and article metadata are generated weekly. The files are in JSON format and are in the same form as those retrieved via the API.

Download the journal metadata (4.4Mb, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license)

Download the article metadata (5.5Gb, copyrights and related rights for article metadata waived via CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0) Public Domain Dedication)

Each file is a tar.gz.

Structure

The data dumps are structured as follows:

  1. When you unzip/untar the file, you will have a single directory of the form doaj_zx[type]_data_[date generated].
  2. Inside that directory, you will find a list of files with names of the form [type]_batch_[number].json.
    • For example, journal_batch_3.json or article_batch_27.json.
  3. Each file contains up to 100,000 records and is UTF-8 encoded. All files should contain the same number of records, apart from the last one, which may have fewer.
  4. The structure of each file is as a JSON list: [ { ... first record ... }, { ... second record ... }, { ... third record ...}, ... etc ... ]
  5. Records are not explicitly ordered and the order is not guaranteed to remain consistent across data dumps produced on different days.