In this presentation (recording 46 minutes), Milica Ševkušić, EIFL Open Access Programme Project Coordinator, outlines indexing criteria used by major indexing services and discovery portals, and shares practical indexing strategies for Diamond open access journals. 

The session covers inclusion in platforms such as DOAJ (the Directory of Open Access Journals), Dimensions, OpenAlex, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), CORE (Connecting Repositories) and Google Scholar, highlighting the importance of reputable, no-fee indexing services and risks associated with fake indexing providers. See the list of platforms and requirements. 

The presentation took place during a meeting of the No-Fee Open Access Publishing in Africa Community of Practice, moderated by EIFL and WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network).