WAENT is a professional Journal designed to help augment the exchange of information and ideas regarding ear, nose and throat diseases. It is not designed for patients to obtain advice or treatment recommendations or for the lay public or children.

WAENT is an open access Journal and is listed in the EBSCO Data Base.  EBSCO is the largest intermediary between publishers and libraries.  Over 100,000 libraries worldwide subscribe to at least one EBSCOhost database.  The WAENT is also indexed by the GOOGLE search engine and stored in Google's Index Database, as of Mar. 23, 2011 WAENT received 16,300 visits per month.  In addition, the WAENT is indexed The Directory of Open Access Journals www.doaj.org  (Article search: http://www.doaj.org/ ).