DOAJ / robots.txt
← back to doaj.org · change detected 1mo ago (2026-08-18T11:29:20Z) · modified +20 −68
What changed
- 🤖 AIUnblocked Amazonbot (Amazon) - rules removed
- 🤖 AIUnblocked Applebot-Extended (Apple) - rules removed
- 🤖 AIUnblocked Bytespider (ByteDance) - rules removed
- 🤖 AIUnblocked CCBot (Common Crawl) - rules removed
- 🤖 AIUnblocked ClaudeBot (Anthropic) - rules removed
- Removed all rules for user-agent ‘CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler’
- 🤖 AIUnblocked Google-Extended (Google) - rules removed
- 🤖 AIUnblocked GPTBot (OpenAI) - rules removed
- 🤖 AIUnblocked meta-externalagent (Meta) - rules removed
- Added Disallow: /account for *
- Added Disallow: /admin for *
- Added Disallow: /admin_query/ for *
- Added Disallow: /associate_query/ for *
- Added Disallow: /dashboard_query/ for *
- Added Disallow: /editor for *
- Added Disallow: /editor_query/ for *
- Added Disallow: /en/account for *
- Added Disallow: /fr/account for *
- Added Disallow: /publisher for *
- Added Disallow: /publisher_query/ for *
- Added Disallow: /search for *
- Removed Disallow: /account/ for *
- Removed Disallow: /admin/ for *
- Removed Disallow: /cookie_consent for *
- Removed Disallow: /editor/ for *
- Removed Disallow: /publisher/ for *
- Removed Disallow: /search/ for *
Diff old (2026-07-02T00:38:22Z) → new (2026-08-18T11:29:20Z)
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| 1 | - # As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following | |
| 2 | - # content signals: | |
| 3 | - | |
| 4 | - # (a) If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding | |
| 5 | - # use. | |
| 6 | - # (b) If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the | |
| 7 | - # corresponding use. | |
| 8 | - # (c) If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a | |
| 9 | - # corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts | |
| 10 | - # permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use. | |
| 11 | - | |
| 12 | - # The content signals and their meanings are: | |
| 13 | - | |
| 14 | - # search: building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning | |
| 15 | - # hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not | |
| 16 | - # include providing AI-generated search summaries. | |
| 17 | - # ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval | |
| 18 | - # augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for | |
| 19 | - # generative AI search answers). | |
| 20 | - # ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models. | |
| 21 | - # use: how AI systems may consume the content (immediate, reference, or full). | |
| 22 | - | |
| 23 | - # ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF | |
| 24 | - # RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT | |
| 25 | - # AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET. | |
| 26 | - | |
| 27 | - # BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content | |
| 28 | - | |
| 29 | - User-agent: * | |
| 30 | - Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no,use=reference | |
| 31 | - Allow: / | |
| 32 | - | |
| 33 | - User-agent: Amazonbot | |
| 34 | - Disallow: / | |
| 35 | - | |
| 36 | - User-agent: Applebot-Extended | |
| 37 | - Disallow: / | |
| 38 | - | |
| 39 | - User-agent: Bytespider | |
| 40 | - Disallow: / | |
| 41 | - | |
| 42 | - User-agent: CCBot | |
| 43 | - Disallow: / | |
| 44 | - | |
| 45 | - User-agent: ClaudeBot | |
| 46 | - Disallow: / | |
| 47 | - | |
| 48 | - User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler | |
| 49 | - Disallow: / | |
| 50 | - | |
| 51 | - User-agent: Google-Extended | |
| 52 | - Disallow: / | |
| 53 | - | |
| 54 | - User-agent: GPTBot | |
| 55 | - Disallow: / | |
| 56 | - | |
| 57 | - User-agent: meta-externalagent | |
| 58 | - Disallow: / | |
| 59 | - | |
| 60 | - # END Cloudflare Managed Content | |
| 61 | - | |
| 62 | 1 | Sitemap: https://doaj.org/sitemap_index_0.xml |
| 63 | 2 | Sitemap: https://doaj.org/sitemap_index_1.xml |
| 64 | 3 | Sitemap: https://doaj.org/sitemap_index_2.xml |
| 65 | 4 | |
| 66 | - User-agent: * | |
| 67 | - Disallow: /search/ | |
| 5 | + # The DOAJ aims to make its content accessible without restriction including for AI use. This may | |
| 6 | + # need to change if site load becomes untenable. | |
| 7 | + | |
| 8 | + User-Agent: * | |
| 9 | + Content-signal: search=yes, ai-train=yes, ai-input=yes, use=reference | |
| 10 | + Disallow: /search | |
| 11 | + Disallow: /account | |
| 12 | + Disallow: /en/account | |
| 13 | + Disallow: /fr/account | |
| 14 | + Disallow: /admin | |
| 15 | + Disallow: /editor | |
| 16 | + Disallow: /publisher | |
| 68 | 17 | Disallow: /query/ |
| 69 | - Disallow: /account/ | |
| 70 | - Disallow: /admin/ | |
| 71 | - Disallow: /editor/ | |
| 72 | - Disallow: /publisher/ | |
| 73 | - Disallow: /cookie_consent | |
| 18 | + Disallow: /admin_query/ | |
| 19 | + Disallow: /publisher_query/ | |
| 20 | + Disallow: /editor_query/ | |
| 21 | + Disallow: /associate_query/ | |
| 22 | + Disallow: /dashboard_query/ | |
| 23 | + # cookie_consent backend route commented out in bf0408cc9 - replaced with JS-only implementation | |
| 24 | + # Disallow: /cookie_consent | |
| 25 | + Allow: / |