As of today the Directory of Open Access Journals contains 4000 open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web.
The usage of DOAJ is constantly increasing. Every month we have more than 8 million hits; hundreds of libraries all over the world have included the DOAJ titles in their catalogues and other services and commercial aggregators are as well benefiting of the service.
The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is still to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, and thereby promote their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system. Journals in about 50 languages can be found and all subject areas are welcome. Now there are journals from 98 countries in DOAJ. To maintain the quality of the service we also have to remove titles from DOAJ if they no longer live up to the selection criteria. 94 titles have been removed during 2008....
PS: There are several larger lists of OA journals, but as far as I can tell they are not limited to peer-reviewed journals. If there larger lists of peer-reviewed OA journals, I'd like to know about them.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/01/2009 11:08:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
