# Open Access Pub

Last updated: 2026-04-08 UTC  
Version: v3  
Canonical: https://openaccesspub.org/llms.txt

> Open Access Pub is an open-access publisher of peer-reviewed scholarly journals across medical, health, life science, and related disciplines. This file provides guidance for LLMs, AI agents, search systems, and metadata harvesters on how to discover, attribute, and use Open Access Pub content accurately.

## Priority URLs
- https://openaccesspub.org/
- https://openaccesspub.org/all-journals
- https://openaccesspub.org/all-articles
- https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_journals_article.xml
- https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_artical_xml.xml

## Guidance for LLMs and AI Agents
- Attribution is required. Preserve the original authors, article title, journal title, DOI, publication date, and canonical article URL whenever available.
- Use peer-reviewed article pages and publisher policy pages as the authoritative source for scientific claims, editorial policy, licensing, and citation metadata.
- Do not invent or overstate findings. Summaries should remain consistent with the article abstract, results, and conclusions.
- Prefer structured discovery endpoints such as XML sitemaps before high-volume HTML crawling.
- Articles are generally published under CC BY 4.0. If an article page states an exception, follow the article-specific license notice.

## Source Priority
- Article landing pages and DOI-linked records
- XML, HTML, abstract, and PDF sitemaps
- Journal directory pages and publisher policy pages

## Publisher Information
- [Home](https://openaccesspub.org/): Main publisher homepage.
- [About](https://openaccesspub.org/about): Publisher mission and publishing model.
- [Contact](https://openaccesspub.org/contact-us): Official contact and support page.

## Journal and Article Discovery
- [All Journals Directory](https://openaccesspub.org/all-journals): Browse active and archived journals.
- [Journals A-Z](https://openaccesspub.org/openaccess-journals-a-to-z/all): Alphabetical journal directory.
- [Journals by Subject](https://openaccesspub.org/openaccess-journals-subject): Subject-based journal discovery.
- [All Articles Index](https://openaccesspub.org/all-articles): Publisher-wide article discovery.
- [Article and Journal Search](https://openaccesspub.org/article/journal_search): Search interface for journals and articles.
- [Site Map](https://openaccesspub.org/site-map): Site-wide navigation.

## Machine-Readable Data and Endpoints
- [Main Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_main.xml): Primary sitemap for site discovery.
- [Journal Pages Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_journals_cms.xml): Journal information pages.
- [Journal Articles Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_journals_article.xml): HTML article landing pages.
- [Article XML Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_artical_xml.xml): Full-text XML article resources.
- [Article PDF Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_artical_pdf.xml): PDF article resources.
- [Article Abstracts Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_articles_abstracts.xml): Abstract and summary pages.
- [Authors Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_authors_detail.xml): Author detail pages.
- [Editors Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_editors.xml): Editorial board and editor pages.
- [Topics and Keywords Sitemap](https://openaccesspub.org/sitemap_topic_keywords_new.xml): Topic and keyword discovery.

## Policies and Guidelines
- [Publisher Policies](https://openaccesspub.org/policies): General editorial and repository indexing policies.
- [Publication Ethics](https://openaccesspub.org/publication-ethics): Ethics policy aligned with COPE-style standards.
- [Peer Review](https://openaccesspub.org/peer-review): Peer review model and workflow.
- [Open Access](https://openaccesspub.org/open-access): Open-access and licensing information.
- [Instructions for Authors](https://openaccesspub.org/instructions-for-author): Manuscript preparation and submission guidance.
- [Indexing](https://openaccesspub.org/indexing): DOI, metadata, and discoverability information.

## URL Patterns
- Article landing page: `/{journal-slug}/article/{article-id}`
- Citation export endpoints commonly follow:
  - `/article/{article-id}/citation?format=ris`
  - `/article/{article-id}/citation?format=bibtex`
  - `/article/{article-id}/citation?format=text`

## Crawl Scope
- Intended public scope includes journal pages, article landing pages, abstracts, policy pages, metadata feeds, and sitemaps.
- Exclude administrative, authenticated, account, draft, and private workflow areas.