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+For Publishers
+===================
+
+This page addresses common questions and concerns from publishers of research
+works indexed in Fatcat, as well as the Internet Archive Scholar service built
+on top of it. The [for authors](./authors.md) has some information on updates
+and metadata corrections that are also relevant to publishers.
+
+For help in exceptional cases, contact Internet Archive through our usual
+support channels.
+
+
+## Metadata Indexing
+
+Many publishers will find that metadata records are already included in fatcat
+if they register persistent identifiers for their research works. This pipeline
+is based on our automated harvesting of DOI, Pubmed, dblp, DOAJ, and other
+metadata catalogs. This process can take some time (eg, days from
+registration), does not (yet) cover all persistent identifiers, and will only
+cover those works which get identifiers.
+
+For publishers who find that they are not getting indexed in fatcat, our
+primary advice is to register ISSNs for venues (journals, repositories,
+conferences, etc), and to register DOIs for all current and back-catalog works.
+DOIs are the most common and integrated identifier in the scholarly ecosystem,
+and will result in automatic indexing in many other aggregators in addition to
+fatcat/scholar. There may be funding or resources available for smaller
+publishers to cover the cost of DOI registration, and ISSN registration is
+usually no-cost or affordable through national institutions.
+
+We *do not* recommend that journal or conference publishers use general-purpose
+repositories like Zenodo to obtain no-cost DOIs for journal articles. These
+platforms are a great place for pre-publication versions, datasets, software,
+and other artifacts, but not for primary publication-version works (in our
+opinion).
+
+If DOI registration is not possible, one good alternative is to get included in
+the Directory of Open Access Journals and deposit article metadata there. This
+process may take some time, but is a good basic indicator of publication
+quality. DOAJ article metadata is periodically harvested and indexed in fatcat,
+after a de-duplication process.
+
+Fatcat does not yet support OAI-PMH as an identifier and mechanism for
+automated journal ingest, but we likely will in the future. This would
+particularly help publishers using the Open Journal System (OJS). Fatcat also
+does not yet support crawling journal sites and extracting bibliographic
+metadata from HTML tags.
+
+Lastly, publishers could use the fatcat catalog web interface or API to push
+metadata records about their works programmatically. We don't know of any
+publishers actually doing this today.
+
+
+## Improving Automatic Preservation
+
+In alignment with it's mission, Internet Archive makes basic automated attempts
+to capture and preserve all open access research publications on the public
+web, at no cost. This effort comes with no guarantees around completeness,
+timeliness, or support communications.
+
+Preservation coverage can be monitored through the journal-specific dashboards
+or via the coverage search interface.
+
+There are a few technical things publishers can do to increase their
+preservation coverage, in addition to the metadata indexing tips above:
+
+- use the `citation_pdf_url` HTML meta tag, when appropriate, to link directly
+  from article landing pages to PDF URLs
+- use simple HTML to represent landing pages and article content, and do not
+  require Javascript to render page content or links
+- ensure that hosting server `robots.txt` rules are not preventing or overly
+  restricting automated crawling
+- use simple, accessible PDF access links. Do not use time-limited or
+  IP-limited URLs, require specific referrer headers, or use cookies to
+  authenticate access to OA PDFs
+- minimize the number of HTTP redirects and HTML hops between DOI and fulltext
+  content
+- paywalls, loginwalls, geofencing, and anti-bot measures are all obviously
+  antithetical to open crawling and indexing
+
+Publishers are also free to submit "Save Paper Now" requests, or edit the
+catalog itself either manually or in bulk through the API. If an individual
+work persistently fails to ingest, try running a "Save Page Now" request first
+from web.archive.org and verify that the content is available through Wayback
+replay, then submit the "Save Paper Now" request again.
+
+
+## Official Preservation
+
+Internet Archive is developing preservation services for scholarly content on
+the web. Contact us at webservices@archive.org for details.
+
+Existing web archiving services offered to universities, national libraries,
+and other institutions may already be appropriate for some publications. Check
+if your affiliated institutions already have an
+[Archive-IT](https://archive-it.org) account or other existing relationship
+with Internet Archive.
+
+Small publishers using Open Journal System (OJS) should be aware of the PKP
+preservation project.