BJBM is committed to accurate discoverability claims, persistent metadata, ethical indexing practices, and long-term preservation of the scholarly record.

Principle of Accurate Claims

The journal lists only services, databases, indexes, directories, aggregators, metadata services, discovery platforms, and preservation arrangements that currently and verifiably include the journal or its published content. Aspirational targets, pending applications, or services still under process are not presented as achieved coverage.

Current Indexing and Abstracting

BJBM is indexed and abstracted in the following recognised scholarly directory:

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Discoverability and Aggregators

BJBM seeks wide visibility through recognised scholarly discovery platforms, metadata services, aggregators, bibliographic directories, and library discovery systems. The journal and/or its published content is discoverable through the following services:

ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
Research4Life
Google Scholar
IDEAS
OpenAlex
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Dimensions A Digital Science Solution
Crossref
Scilit
WorldCat
BASE Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Metadata and Identifiers

BJBM aims to maintain accurate article metadata, including titles, abstracts, keywords, authorship details, affiliation details, licensing information, issue assignment, pagination or article identifiers where used, and DOI or other persistent identifiers where applicable.

The journal uses metadata services such as Crossref to support persistent scholarly identification, citation linking, and responsible metadata dissemination.

Preservation and Archiving

The journal is committed to long-term accessibility and preservation of its published content. BJBM maintains preservation and archiving arrangements through PKP PN, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, repository deposit, and backup systems.

Corrections to Records

Where indexing metadata, licensing information, author details, article records, discovery records, or preservation records require correction, the journal will update them responsibly and transparently.