18 February 2011

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

This excellent online Directory contains free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 3,833 journals in the directory. Currently 1,365 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 2,52,055 articles are included in the Directory of Open Access Journals service.

The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.

Coverage:

  • Subject: all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered

  • Types of resource: scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text.

  • Acceptable sources: academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources are all acceptable.

  • Level: the target group for included journals should be primarily researchers.

  • Content: a substantive part of the journal should consist of research papers. All content should be available in full text.

  • All languages

Access:

  • All content freely available.

  • Registration: Free user registration online is acceptable.

  • Open Access without delay (e.g. no embargo period).

Quality:

Quality control: for a journal to be included it should exercise quality control on submitted papers through an editor, editorial board and/or a peer-review system.

Click here to access the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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