Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4025 journals in the directory. Currently 1448 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 270911 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" we take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

The lovely broad subject tree can be broken even further into into individual links--subheadings and individual links to journals--for your pathfinders:

• Agriculture and Food Sciences
• Arts and Architecture
• Biology and Life Sciences
• Business and Economics
• Chemistry
• Earth and Environmental Sciences
• General Works
• Health Sciences
• History and Archaeology
• Languages and Literatures
• Law and Political Science
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Philosophy and Religion
• Physics and Astronomy
• Science General
• Social Sciences
• Technology and Engineering

Posted by Joyce Valenza Ph.D on April 14, 2009 on her blog NEVERENDINGSEARCH