Search DOAJ Journals
doaj/search-journals
Searches the Directory of Open Access Journals by text or field and returns each journal's ISSNs, publisher, country, licences, article processing charge, waiver, time to publication, subjects, keywords, peer-review type and preservation services. Metadata from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), https://doaj.org, released under CC0 and reduced to the fields listed. Served by Eden Engine; not an official DOAJ product.
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Price
$0.0026 per call
You pay the price shown. If a call turns out to cost more than its quote, you pay the actual price, capped at twice the quote. No monthly minimum. Top-ups start at $0.50.
Data source
Metadata from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), https://doaj.org, released under CC0 and reduced to the fields listed. Served by Eden Engine; not an official DOAJ product.
Use it
Five steps: search, inspect, learn, run, settle. No per-tool setup; your agent reaches this tool through the meta-tools it already has.
Connect once and your AI can find and run this tool, and any other it needs.
agent
// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })
// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "doaj/search-journals" })
// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "doaj/search-journals" })
// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "doaj/search-journals", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "doaj/search-journals", input: { /* ... */ } })
// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to doNot connected yet? Point your MCP client at https://mcp.eden-engine.com/mcp, then copy a config for your client.
Pricing
Every charge this tool can incur.
| Charge | Price |
|---|---|
Per call | $0.0026 |
- Updated
- Oct 26, 2026
Input and output schemas
Input schema
input_schema.json
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"q"
],
"properties": {
"q": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "\\S",
"maxLength": 300,
"minLength": 1,
"description": "Search text, or an Elasticsearch query string with field prefixes. For example ecology, issn:1932-6203, publisher:\"Public Library of Science\" or bibjson.subject.term:Ecology. Wildcards (*), regular expressions and fuzzy (~) searches are refused."
},
"page": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 1,
"maximum": 1000,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Page number, starting at 1. DOAJ refuses any page whose last result is beyond the 1000th (page times page_size above 1000 is a validation error)."
},
"sort": {
"enum": [
"title:asc",
"title:desc",
"created_date:desc",
"created_date:asc",
"last_updated:desc"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Sort order. Leave out for best match first. created_date:desc is newest additions first; last_updated:desc is most recently changed first."
},
"page_size": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 10,
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Results per page, 1 to 100, default 10."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}Output schema
output_schema.json
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"items"
],
"properties": {
"page": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
],
"description": "Page returned."
},
"items": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"id"
],
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "DOAJ journal id (32 hex characters); use it with get-journal."
},
"title": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Journal title."
},
"apc_max": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"price": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Maximum APC, in the currency given."
},
"currency": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "ISO 4217 currency code."
}
},
"description": "A maximum charge.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Maximum article processing charge per currency."
},
"apc_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Page describing the APC."
},
"created": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "When the record was created in DOAJ, UTC."
},
"keywords": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A keyword."
},
"description": "Journal keywords."
},
"licenses": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Licence URL."
},
"type": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Licence type, for example CC BY."
}
},
"description": "A licence.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Article licences."
},
"replaces": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "An ISSN."
},
"description": "ISSNs of journals this one replaces."
},
"subjects": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Subject code, for example an LCC class."
},
"term": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Subject heading."
},
"scheme": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Classification scheme, for example LCC."
}
},
"description": "A subject.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Subject classification."
},
"languages": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A language code, for example EN."
},
"description": "Languages of the full text."
},
"publisher": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Publisher name."
},
"has_waiver": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
],
"description": "True when the journal offers an APC waiver."
},
"issn_print": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Print ISSN."
},
"waiver_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Page describing the waiver."
},
"charges_apc": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
],
"description": "True when the journal charges an article processing charge."
},
"institution": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Institution that owns the journal."
},
"journal_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Journal home page."
},
"replaced_by": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "An ISSN."
},
"description": "ISSNs of journals that replace this one."
},
"last_updated": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "When the record last changed in DOAJ, UTC."
},
"issn_electronic": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Electronic ISSN."
},
"peer_review_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Page describing the review process."
},
"last_full_review": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Date DOAJ last fully reviewed the journal, YYYY-MM-DD."
},
"alternative_title": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Alternative title."
},
"peer_review_types": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A review process."
},
"description": "Peer review processes."
},
"publisher_country": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Publisher country, ISO 3166 code."
},
"institution_country": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Institution country, ISO 3166 code."
},
"preservation_services": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A preservation service, for example CLOCKSS."
},
"description": "Digital preservation services."
},
"open_access_since_year": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
],
"description": "Year the journal became open access (a calendar year)."
},
"publication_time_weeks": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Average time from submission to publication, in weeks."
}
},
"description": "A journal.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Matches in the order requested."
},
"total": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
],
"description": "Matches in DOAJ for this query."
},
"page_size": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
],
"description": "Results per page."
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}