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Does oxfordjournals.org block AI crawlers?

Partly. As of October 19, 2026, oxfordjournals.org's robots.txt blocks none of the 17 AI crawlers we check from the whole site, but keeps all 17 out of parts of it. None of them is named in the file: they all follow its rules for every crawler (User-agent: *).

Its /llms.txt answered HTTP 403. The homepage answered HTTP 403 to ContextFetchBot, so there was nothing to measure.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://oxfordjournals.org/robots.txt (4,269 bytes, 2 user-agent groups), parsed per RFC 9309. Blocked: no path allowed. Partly blocked: some paths disallowed. The rule counts are those of the groups that apply.

CrawlerOperatorVerdictRules that applyDisallow rulesAllow rules
GPTBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
anthropic-aiAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
PerplexityBotPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
Perplexity-UserPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
Google-ExtendedGooglePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
Applebot-ExtendedApplePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
CCBotCommon CrawlPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
BytespiderByteDancePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
AmazonbotAmazonPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
meta-externalagentMetaPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
cohere-aiCoherePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
DiffbotDiffbotPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)613
Checked October 19, 2026 by ContextFetchBot. Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are robots.txt tokens that control use of content for AI, not separate crawlers.

Read oxfordjournals.org through ContextFetch

GET /r/ returns a page as Markdown, with X-Raw-Tokens and X-Output-Tokens headers. Add ?q= and a question to get only the passages that answer it. No key needed for 25 requests a day; a free key has 2,500 credits. oxfordjournals.org's robots.txt partly blocks ContextFetchBot: our index and crawls skip what it disallows, and a page you ask for is fetched once on your behalf (see the bot page).

curl -si "https://api.contextfetch.dev/r/https://oxfordjournals.org/"

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