Neliti

What Neliti does

Neliti operates a free-to-use website builder and content management system purpose-built for academic content providers, enabling universities, research institutes, think tanks, government agencies, and journal editors to host institutional repositories, peer-reviewed journals, and academic conferences without technical expertise. Founded in 2015 and incorporated in Singapore as Neliti Pte. Ltd. (UEN 202214435K) with operational presence in Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia, the company is run by a small team of 1-10 employees and is explicitly positioned as independent infrastructure not owned by a publisher, government, or commercial investor.

The technology stack comprises a no-code website builder with custom domain support, OAI-PMH version 2.0 metadata harvesting in Dublin Core, DOI registration and management, multi-format content display (HTML, PDF, JATS XML), and article-level analytics covering downloads, citations, and social shares. Hosted content is automatically distributed to Google Scholar and 10 additional academic databases for discoverability, and the platform exposes an open OAI-PMH endpoint that allows third-party harvesters to integrate. Adjacent services include a Migration offering for onboarding legacy platforms and a dedicated editing services workflow.

Neliti's business model is predominantly freemium: core hosting for repositories, journals, and conferences is provided at no charge, while monetization is layered on top through display advertising, an institutional supporter subscription (API access, priority support, supporter badge), a DOI registration service, and a paid academic editing partnership with Enago offered at discounted rates for Neliti members. As of the latest available data, the platform hosts over 400,000 publications across 3,500+ journals and 1,400+ repositories in 49 countries, attracting approximately 12 million monthly visitors with millions of monthly downloads; revenue and funding are not publicly disclosed.

Name

Neliti

Legal name

Neliti Pte. Ltd.

Website

https://neliti.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Neliti is a free-to-use website builder and CMS that enables universities, research institutes, and journals to host institutional repositories, peer-reviewed journals, and academic conferences with automated Google Scholar indexing across 49 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Publishing Infrastructure / Scholarly Communication Platforms

NAICS

Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Information (51)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAJABAC

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Educational & Academic Publishing (Textbooks, Scholarly, STM)

SECONDARYMPAJABAK

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Educational & Academic Publishing (Textbooks, Scholarly, STM)

SECONDARYMPACAIAJ

White-Label/Hosted Publishing Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Publishing Platforms (Blogging/Newsletters)

Keywords

• Academic repository hosting
• Journal publishing platform
• Conference proceedings hosting
• DOI registration services
• Scholarly content discovery

Headquarters

HQ city

Jakarta Pusat

HQ country

Indonesia

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Platform Hosting (Free Tier): Core platform hosting services are provided free of charge to institutions, journals, and conferences. Revenue is not generated from hosting fees.
2. Academic Editing Services: Paid editing and proofreading services for academic journal articles offered at discounted rates for Neliti members. Services include Language Check, Copy Editing, Substantive Editing, Manuscript Submission Assistance, Pre-submission Peer Review, and Journal Selection Assistance.
3. DOI Registration: DOI registration service (new) for academic content management.
4. Advertising: Display advertisements by third party sponsors on the Platform.
5. Institutional Support/Subscriptions: Institutional supporters receive benefits including API access, priority support, and listing on supporters page. Institutions and individuals can support the platform financially.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Neliti provides a free, no-code website builder and content management system that lets institutions create and host beautiful websites for academic content — institutional repositories, peer-reviewed journals, and conference proceedings. The platform automatically distributes hosted content to Google Scholar and 10+ other indexing databases, supports DOI registration, displays full-text articles in HTML, PDF, and JATS XML, and offers article-level analytics. Revenue is generated through institutional supporter subscriptions, paid DOI registration, third-party advertising, and affiliated academic editing services.

Product overview

Neliti is a free-to-use website builder and content management system that creates beautiful web interfaces for three types of academic content providers: institutional repositories, academic journals, and academic conferences. The platform comprises a core content hosting and discovery system with four integrated products: Repository Hosting, Journal Hosting, and Conference Hosting services for building and publishing academic websites, plus a DOI Registration service for managing persistent identifiers. Additional services include Migration Service for transitioning existing platforms, Academic Editing Services (Language Check, Copy Editing, Substantive Editing, Manuscript Submission Assistance, Pre-submission Peer Review, Journal Selection Assistance), OAI-PMH Metadata Service for metadata harvesting, and Advertising. The platform serves as both a publishing tool for content providers and a search engine for researchers, distributing content to Google Scholar and other indexing services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Repository Hosting A no-code website builder and hosting service that allows universities, research institutes, government agencies, and research-oriented NGOs to create, manage, and customize institutional repository websites with full-text article display, custom domains, and automated Google Scholar indexing.
• Journal Hosting A publishing platform for academic journals that creates beautiful, branded journal websites with full-text HTML, PDF, and JATS XML article display, DOI registration, and article-level analytics (downloads, citations, social shares), aimed at journal editors without in-house web development.
• Conference Hosting A service for hosting academic conference websites and publishing annual conference proceedings with curated archives, DOI assignment, and discovery indexing for non-journal gray literature.
• DOI Registration Service A standalone paid service for registering and managing Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for academic content hosted on the platform, enabling persistent, citable references for journal articles and conference papers.
• Academic Editing Services A suite of academic journal editing services (Language Check, Copy Editing, Substantive Editing, Manuscript Submission Assistance, Pre-submission Peer Review, and Journal Selection Assistance) offered to Neliti members at discounted rates via partnership with Enago.
• OAI-PMH Metadata Service An API-based, OAI-PMH version 2.0 compliant metadata harvesting service (Dublin Core) exposing all items in the repository to third-party systems via Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, ListSets, and GetRecord endpoints.
• Advertising on Neliti A self-serve advertising offering that allows third-party sponsors to display ads on the Neliti platform to reach an audience of academic researchers, scholars, and policymakers.
• Migration Service A service that helps institutions migrate their existing repositories, journals, or conferences to the Neliti platform.
• Content Discovery Platform A free search engine on neliti.com that enables researchers, scholars, institutions, and policymakers to discover and cite academic content, with a particular focus on research from underrepresented regions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 12 million monthly visitors
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Library of IndonesiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe National Library of Indonesia is listed as an institutional supporter of Neliti, helping sustain the platform's mission to make research from developing countries globally discoverable.
• StoreLocateminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as an institutional supporter of Neliti on the Supporters page.
• EnagocoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEnago provides academic editing services (Language Check, Copy Editing, Substantive Editing, Manuscript Submission Assistance, Pre-submission Peer Review, Journal Selection Assistance) offered at discounted rates for Neliti members. Services are accessed through a dedicated publication support form.
• Google ScholarcoreTechnology or IntegrationNeliti's system distributes content to Google Scholar and 10 other databases, amplifying discoverability, reach, citations and impact for hosted academic content.
• Multiple Academic DatabasescoreTechnology or IntegrationContent is automatically indexed and distributed across 10+ academic archiving and indexing services beyond Google Scholar.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ResearchGate: ResearchGate is a large academic social network and discovery platform. While broader and researcher-focused rather than publisher-focused, it competes for the same research audience and discoverability use case.

Direct peers

• EPrints: EPrints is a long-established open-source repository platform. It targets the same institutional repository use case as Neliti, particularly in higher education.
• Public Knowledge Project (Open Journal Systems): PKP's OJS is the leading open-source platform for academic journal publishing. It directly overlaps with Neliti's journal hosting product and serves the same institutional customers worldwide.
• DSpace: DSpace is the dominant open-source institutional repository platform used by universities globally. It competes directly with Neliti's repository hosting offering.
• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): BASE is one of the world's largest academic search engines, harvesting metadata from repositories. It competes with Neliti on researcher-facing discovery.
• SciELO: SciELO is a regional academic publishing platform focused on Latin America and Iberia. It shares Neliti's mission of making regional research globally discoverable via indexed journals.
• CORE (Connecting Repositories): CORE aggregates open access research from repositories worldwide. It overlaps with Neliti's content discovery and OAI-PMH harvesting capabilities.
• African Journals Online (AJOL): AJOL hosts and indexes African scholarly journals, mirroring Neliti's focus on surfacing underrepresented research from emerging markets.

Others

• Crossref: Crossref is the dominant DOI registration agency for scholarly content. Neliti's new DOI registration service is a direct downstream offering competing with this infrastructure provider.

Emerging players

• Janeway (Open Library Press): Janeway is an emerging open-source journal hosting and publishing platform. It targets similar academic customers with similar workflows to Neliti's journal product.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/neliti6
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@neliti
• Facebookfacebook.com/neliti6
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/neliti

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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