The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ 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, the DOAJ aims to be THE one stop shop for users of open access journals.
Definitions
Open Access Journal: 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 support the rights 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.
[1] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess
Quality Control: The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.
Research Journal: Journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community.
Periodical: A serial appearing, or intending to appear, indefinitely at regular intervals and generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings.
Selection Criteria
Coverage:
Access:
All content freely available.
Quality: 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.
Periodical: The journal should have an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number, for information see http://www.issn.org). Online journals should have an eISSN.
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