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The open society institute funded various open access related projects after the budapest open access initiative. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free, without delay or userregistration requirement, and meeting high quality standards, notably. Journals directory list of academic journals, open. Doaj directory of open access journals online library. The doaj searches, both journal and article level, seem to have primitive searching mechanisms at the moment. A list of open access journals published by elsevier. All funding is via donations, 22% of which comes from sponsors and 78% from members and publisher members.
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This paper aims to evaluate the publishing trends of the open access journals in the computer science discipline registered in. The pmc open access subset is a part of the total collection of articles in pmc. Work palrap earns the directory of open access journals. Open is a series of new, fully open access physics journals to complement the existing portfolio of epj. The directory of open access journals doaj directory of open access journals, 2014c was founded in 2003 and, at the time of this study, listed more than 9,700 oa journals. Journals in all languages and subject areas will be included in the doaj. Pdf open access journals in library and information science. Free access to scientific journals open access journals. This paper aims to evaluate the publishing trends of the open access journals in the computer science discipline registered in the directory of open access journals doaj. Journal of islamic ethics is an open journal and monograph series published by brill in partnership with hamad bin khalifa university announced in april 2016. Directory of open access journals introduces new standards.
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This article analyzes the directory of open access journals doaj n 12,127 to identify characteristics of oa academic journals related to the adoption of article processing charge apcbased business models, as well as the price points of journals that charge apcs. Dec 18, 2014 the directory of open access journals doaj directory of open access journals, 2014c was founded in 2003 and, at the time of this study, listed more than 9,700 oa journals. Open access journals impact factor scientific journals. Directory of open access journals introduces new standards to. Mar 05, 2015 the directory of open access journals doaj, a comprehensive international database of more than 10,000 open access journals, recently implemented a rigorous new vetting process that aims to raise the bar of quality for the journals it lists and filters out publications that are tarnishing the image of open access. Pdf directory of open access journals natallia liutsko. Pdf on jan 8, 2018, lway faisal abdulrazak and others published. Supplying articles for indexation is optional and currently more than.
Pdf open access journals in library and information. Our open access journals list helps author to find right journal for their manuscript publication. The directory of open access journals doaj, a comprehensive international database of more than 10,000 open access journals, recently implemented a rigorous new vetting process that aims to raise the bar of quality for the journals it lists and filters out publications that are tarnishing the image of open access. Because of the free access open access journals impact factors are improving.
Iflabrill open access award doab received the 2015 iflabrill open access award, which was created to reward initiatives that facilitate andor promote open access scholarly monographs in the humanities or social sciences. Journals directory indexes and provides list of academic journals. Supplying articles for indexation is optional and currently more than 5,600 of the journals are searchable at the article level. We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.
You can either type a keyword into the box below or click the arrows in the tree to expand and collapse subjects. There are a number of ways you can make your research open access with wiley for details watch our video about wileys open access options and read the gold and green overviews. This article reports the results of a survey of the 2567 journals, or 26% of journals listed in doaj, that do have apcs based on a sample of 1432 of these journals. Aug 15, 2016 introduction to the directory of open access journals 1. Our open access academic books and chapters on average receive seven times more downloads, 50% more citations, and ten times more online mentions compared to non open access books. Metadata information about the theses comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. Open access journals scientific research publishing. The directory of open access journals covers more biomedical open access journals than other databases.
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