Why Publish in Database

Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation is a fully open‑access journal providing a dedicated platform for advances in biological database development, curation, annotation, and data‑driven discovery.

A Leading Venue for Biological Databases & Biocuration

As the volume, diversity and complexity of biological data continue to expand, Database serves the community by publishing work that advances:

• design, maintenance, and evolution of biological databases

• biocuration methods, annotation standards & workflows

• tools enabling data integration, analysis, and reusability

• ontology development, genome annotation updates, and automated prediction/annotation tools 

The journal also publishes perspective pieces, user tutorials, technical notes, and conference reports relevant to biocuration and database innovation.

Official Journal of the International Society for Biocuration (ISB)

Database is the official journal of the International Society for Biocuration, reinforcing its role as the central publishing venue for the global biocuration community.

High Impact & Strong Visibility in Computational Biology

Database has well‑established impact and visibility across computational biology and bioinformatics. Read our latest bibliometrics data here.

Fully Open Access for Maximum Reach

All articles in Database are published immediately and permanently open access, ensuring unrestricted global availability and broader readership.

Virtual Issues and High‑Impact Collections

The journal curates Virtual Issues from major conferences and topical themes, and maintains a High‑Impact Research Collection featuring the most‑read and most‑cited recent articles. These collections offer authors additional visibility among targeted sub‑communities.

Support for Reproducible, FAIR & Data‑Driven Science

The journal encourages:

• inclusion of biological discoveries or testable hypotheses linked to databases

• integration of large datasets through standardized pipelines

• adherence to best practices in annotation, curation consistency and FAIR principles

• publication of methods improving data interoperability and reuse [

This makes Database an influential outlet for authors whose work underpins open, FAIR biological data ecosystems.

Broad Indexing for Discoverability

Database is indexed in major abstracting and indexing services to ensure your work is discoverable by researchers and practitioners worldwide, including: DOAJ, MEDLINE/PubMed, and PubMed Central.  

Read and publish

OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish in the open-access format, and the institution may pay the cost. Find out if your institution is participating.

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