Request membership
ORI is open to scholarly journals and to the publishers, universities, research institutes and scholarly societies that maintain them. Your organization applies once; after approval, your team registers its journals and articles from the ORI dashboard, the WordPress connector or the API.
- Participating journals
- 3
- Public records
- 24
- Active identifiers
- 24
- Application
- Apply now
Who can join
Organizations that maintain scholarly journals
Publishers
Commercial and non-profit publishers of scholarly journals.
Universities
Universities and their faculties, presses and graduate programs.
Research institutes
Public and private research centres that publish journals.
Scholarly societies
Associations and societies that maintain journals in their field.
Benefits
What your journals get
A permanent identifier
Every article receives an ORI code that never changes, is never reused and always resolves to its public page.
Found by search engines
Open metadata (BibTeX, RIS, JSON, OAI-PMH) with the citation tags read by academic search engines.
Links that survive moves
If your journal changes website or platform, only the address in the record changes; citations keep working.
Transparent corrections
Corrections, withdrawals and retractions are shown publicly with their reasons, and records are never deleted.
Preserved full text
Deposit the PDF in the ORI repository: kept with a checksum and a second copy, checked on a regular schedule.
A dashboard for your team
Roles for institutional administrators, editors and registry operators, with a full history of every change.
Requirements
What we ask of participating journals
- The journal is maintained by an identifiable editorial organization.
- It publishes peer-reviewed scholarly content and has a public website.
- It commits to sending accurate metadata and keeping it up to date, including corrections and retractions.
- An ISSN is recommended; journals without an ISSN can still participate.
Registration, persistence and retraction rules apply equally to every participant — see the policies.
How to join
Four steps
- 1Create an accountWith your institutional email; confirm it from the message we send.
- 2Apply for your organizationFill in the form below. The ORI team reviews every application.
- 3Add your journalsAfter approval, register your journals and invite your editors.
- 4Register your articlesFrom the dashboard, the WordPress connector or the API.
Participation follows the published plans.
Application
Applications are submitted by a person responsible for the organization, from their ORI account.
- Account
- Email confirmed
- Organization form
Quick answers
All questions →Is ORI a DOI?
No. ORI is an institutional identifier of Oxton; it is not a DOI or a Crossref registration. If an article also has a DOI, ORI records it and uses it in citations.
How much does it cost?
Participation follows the plans published on the Plans page, with options per number of registrations and for institutions.
My organization is already in ORI. How do I get access?
Ask its institutional administrator to invite you, or request access to the journal from your dashboard.
Questions before applying?
The ORI team can help you plan the registration of your journals.