Abstracting & Indexing

International Abstracting and Indexing Services

This page presents the indexing databases, scholarly search engines, metadata standards and technical solutions that enhance the visibility, accessibility and long-term preservation of publications in Youth in Central and Eastern Europe.

  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) – an international directory of peer-reviewed open access journals that meet high publishing quality standards.
  • ERIH PLUS – the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences covering high-quality academic journals.
  • OpenAIRE – the European Open Science infrastructure providing access to research outputs and interoperable metadata.
  • CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library) – an international full-text database specializing in scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences with a focus on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
  • Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) – a European platform showcasing verified Diamond Open Access journals. It helps researchers discover journals that charge no article processing fees (APCs) and provide immediate open access to readers.
  • Peeref –an international platform that enables the scholarly community to review journals, share evaluations and monitor their presence in major indexing databases.
  • ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) – an international directory of open access scholarly resources maintained by the ISSN International Centre with UNESCO support.
  • Dimensions – a global research information database covering publications, citations, grants and research impact.
  • Scilit – an international scholarly database developed by MDPI indexing millions of scientific publications.
  • Crossref Metadata Search – an international metadata discovery service based on Crossref DOI registration.

Scientific Search Engines and Library Catalogues

Articles published in Youth in Central and Eastern Europe are also discoverable through leading academic search engines, library catalogues and discovery services, increasing their visibility, accessibility and use by researchers and libraries worldwide.

  • Google Scholar – the world's largest academic search engine for scholarly literature, citations and author profiles.
  • WorldCat (OCLC) – the world's largest library catalogue integrating the collections of thousands of academic and research libraries.
  • BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) – one of the largest search engines for open access academic resources operated by Bielefeld University.
  • EZB – Electronic Journals Library – an international electronic journals directory maintained by the University of Regensburg.
  • ZDB (Zeitschriftendatenbank) – Germany’s largest union catalogue of scholarly journals and serial publications, maintained by the German National Library and the Berlin State Library. It provides authoritative bibliographic records and facilitates the identification and discovery of journals in academic library collections.
  • Ex Libris Primo Discovery (np. University of Sunderland, University of Leicester)  – a discovery service used by thousands of academic libraries worldwide, enabling users to locate and access the journal through institutional library catalogues.

National Bibliographic Databases

Youth in Central and Eastern Europe is also indexed and registered in national bibliographic databases and scholarly information services, increasing the journal's visibility within the Polish academic community and supporting research assessment.

  • CEJSH – The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities – an indexing database for Central European scholarly journals.
  • BazHum – the Polish bibliographic database for journals in the humanities and social sciences.
  • Arianta – the Polish catalogue and search engine of scholarly and professional journals.
  • Polish Scientific Bibliography (PBN) – the national system for recording scholarly publications used in the evaluation of research institutions.
  • ICI Journals Master List – an international journal database maintained by Index Copernicus International.
  • ICI World of Journals – an international directory of scholarly journals developed by Index Copernicus.

Metadata Standards and Interoperability

Youth in Central and Eastern Europe implements internationally recognized metadata standards and interoperability protocols to ensure efficient indexing, metadata harvesting and seamless integration with scholarly databases, repositories and library systems.

The adoption of international metadata standards facilitates global dissemination of research outputs, long-term preservation and interoperability between publishers, libraries and indexing services.

The journal supports the following standards:

  • OAI-PMH – protocol for metadata harvesting used by repositories and indexing services.
  • Dublin Core – international metadata standard for scholarly publications.
  • MARC21 – library cataloguing standard widely adopted by academic libraries worldwide.
  • JATS XML – XML standard for scholarly journal publishing.
  • Crossref XML – metadata format used for DOI registration.
  • DataCite XML – metadata standard supporting persistent identifiers and research repositories.
  • OpenAIRE Guidelines – recommendations ensuring interoperability with the European Open Science infrastructure.

Persistent Scholarly Identifiers

All articles published in Youth in Central and Eastern Europe receive persistent digital identifiers that ensure permanent identification, reliable citation and long-term accessibility of scholarly content.

The journal currently supports:

  • DOI (Digital Object Identifier) – persistent identifiers registered through Crossref.
  • ORCID – researcher identifier supporting unambiguous author identification (planned integration).

Digital Preservation

Youth in Central and Eastern Europe implements recognized preservation services and interoperability standards to ensure the long-term security, accessibility and preservation of published scholarly content.

Current preservation mechanisms include:

  • PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) – secure long-term preservation of journal content.
  • OAI-PMH – automated metadata harvesting by indexing services.
  • OpenAIRE – compliance with the European Open Science infrastructure.
  • LOCKSS / CLOCKSS – potential future integration with international preservation networks.

Youth in Central and Eastern Europe continuously develops its publishing infrastructure and expands cooperation with international indexing services and Open Science initiatives.

The Editorial Office is committed to further increasing the journal's visibility, interoperability and scholarly impact by implementing publishing standards consistent with the requirements of the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus and DOAJ.