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OA/Free service

When we receive a request for a DOI, we check to determine if it is an OA/Free DOI, using internal checks and logic. If a DOI satisfies one or more of these checks, we skip sending the request to the publisher API and respond on behalf of the publisher.

  • Has a previous publisher response indicated this DOI is OA/Free/Permfree?
  • Does the DOI have one or more licences that we know are OA?
  • Is the publisher this DOI belongs to OA only?
  • Does the DOI begin with a prefix that the owning publisher has designated as OA?
  • Does the DOI belong to an OA Journal?
  • Does the DOI belong to a journal registered with DOAJ?

For entitlements that have satisfied at least one of the checks above, the “source” key is set to oa_platform.

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