Accessing Knowledge Through Open Access Journals
Open Access Journals
Open Access Journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the readers without financial, legal, or technical barriers with minimal or no copyright limitations.
Subject Based Journals
ABC-Chemistry
Online chemistry journals available either in full or on trial. Separate lists for educational and Russian journals.
BepressBepress delivers scholarly communications and publishing services for academic institutions, empowering their communities to showcase and share their works for maximum impact.
CogPrints
Papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology, and other disciplines related to cognitive science.
Free Electronic Mathematics Journals
List free online journals in mathematical sciences (Maths, Gerometry, Algebra, etc.)
Journal of European Television History and Culture
A multi-media e-journal on the past and present of European television.
Arabic Open Access Journals
الاقتصادي الخليجي
العلوم الاقتصادية
المجلة الطبية البيطرية العراقية
المجلة العراقية للعلوم البيطرية
دراسات ادارية
نشرة الهجرة القسرية
International Review of Law
Quran and Medicine
Open Access Journal Publishers
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society
American Society of Microbiology
BMJ Open
Cambridge University Press
Cell Press
The Company of Biologists
European Geosciences Union
Digital Commons
Dovepress
Ecological Society of America
eLife
Faculty of 1000
Genetics Society of America
Hindawi Publishing
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Intech
Nature Publishing Group
Oxford University Press (Oxford Open)
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Royal Society
SAGE
Springer Open
Wiley Open Access
Open Access Journal Directories
AWEJ
Arab World English Journal is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and open-access e-journal for scholars, researchers, teachers, and officials of the English language in the Arab countries and in the entire world.
SciELO
Scientific Electronic Library Online is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals.
Revues.org
Revues.org is a journals platform for the humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1999, it is now home to 400 online publications. Of our 100 000 articles, 95% are available in full-text access. Revues.org sites receive 2.8 million visits per month.
AATA Online
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of over 120,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. AATA now includes selected subject-specific bibliographies produced as part of the Getty Conservation Institute's own conservation and scientific research projects or as part of specific collaborative projects in which the Institute is involved.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. 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.
JURN directory
JURN directory is an academic search-engine indexing about 4507 free eJournals in the arts & humanities. It uses the Google custom search engine.
SpringerOpen
SpringerOpen is an open access directory for scholarly articles, peer-reviewed journals and books covering all areas of science, technology and medicine. It ranges from very specialized titles to SpringerPlus, and the interdisciplinary open access resources covers all disciplines. All SpringerOpen resources are fully open access and the entire content is freely and permanently available online at SpringerLink, as well as on the SpringerOpen website, ensuring distribution to the widest possible audience.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central publishes over 200 scientific journals in Open Access in the life sciences and medicine.
Digital Commons
Digital Commons is a hosted institutional repository platform. This hosted service is licensed by the bepress also known as Berkeley Electronic Press. It is used by associations, consortia, universities, colleges and public libraries to preserve and showcase their scholarly output.
IEEE Open
IEEE introduces several fully open access journals. Here are the list of most popular ones:
Wiley Open Access
Wiley Open Access is a program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share.
Elsevier Open Access
Elsevier Open Access offers an open access option to over 1500 established peer-reviewed journals.
Taylor & Francis Open
Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals. All of the articles in these journals are published open access. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer-review and expedited online publication
Emerald Open Journals
Emerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,000 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services
IOP Sicence
IOP Sicence provides open access to 7 quality journals. It is committed to providing long-term, sustainable access to quality scientific research for everyone, whilst maintaining high value, trustworthy author and reader services which enhance scientific communication and progress. IOP Science offers authors choice by providing both gold open access and green open access options.
AJOL
African Journals Online is the world's largest and pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals
Brill Online Books
Brill Online Books and Journals is among the richest scholarly sources of its kind, with the full text of near 200,000 book chapters and journal articles, covering the Humanities, International Law and Biology. After adhering open Access initiatives, brill provides open access to many books and journals. Here are some:
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