Dheeraj Singh Negi

Open access literature is online, free of charge to readers, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

“immediate, permanent, toll-free, non-gerrymandered, online access to full text .(BOAI)

new form of distribution -online, free of charge, and free of needless licensing restrictions- is called open access.

Open access journals are defined as, “journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access

A journal will be classed as open access if all articles in that journal are freely accessible

OAJs pay the costs of publishing through one of three basic economic models: Article processing fee/submission charge to authors or author institutions; advertising or corporate sponsorship; or subsidies and grants ;

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Web Address

1 Africa Journals Online http://www.inasp.info/ajol/indexfr.html

2 BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/

3 High Wire Press  http://www.highwire.org/

4 JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/

5 Public Library of Science  http://www.publiclibraryofssience.org

6 Pub Med Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov 

7 SciELO  http://www.scielo.org

AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) - http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ :Provides a collection of 846 commercially published journals in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences

DOAJ(Directory of Open Access Journals) http://doaj.org: gateway that aims to link to all open access scientific journals that use an appropriate quality control system (i.e. peer review). It is managed by Lund University and supported by the Soros Foundation, and currently provides access to over 1,500 electronic journals in all academic disciplines

ELSSS – Electronic Society for Social Scientists – http://www.elsss.org.uk

HINARI (Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) - http://www.healthinternet work.org/scipub.php?lang=en : HINARI provides free access to more than 2,000 commercially published scientific journals and other biomedical literature. It also includes Elsevier’s librarianship and information science journals.

LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) - http://www.libraryresearch.com : Published by EBSCO.This indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings,

Open J-Gate(http://www.openj-gate.com) :compiled by Informatics.It indexes articles from 3000+ academic, research and industry journals .

Open Access journals in India focusing mainly in the area of Medical and Allied Sciences.

India has cover 300 biomedical journals that include hospital newsletters and bulletins out of which a fraction of these are covered in international resources like Medline.

IndMED (over 75 journals) MedKnow (over 20 prominent Indian

biomedical journals) J-Gate (Informatics India) Indian National Science Academy Indian Academy of Science

University of Nevada. Free E-JournalsContains 73 journalsFrom DOAJ, PubMed, SciELO and individual socurces

•ALAN Review: Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (1/1/1994 - 3/1/2001) •Ariadane (1996 - ) DOAJ •ARL Newsletter (2/1/1996 - ) •Boston Review (6/1/1975 - ) •Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (1/1/1911 - 10/31/2001) Pubmed •Chinese Librarianship (6/1/1996 - ) •Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal (1996 - ) DOAJ •CLIR Issues (1/1/1998 - ) •Computer-mediated communication magazine (5/1/1994 - ) •Cultivate Interactive (5/1/1999 - 2/1/2003) •Cyberlaw Informer (3/4/1999 - 5/2/2001) •D-Lib Magazine (1995 - ) DOAJ •E Law (1/1/1993 - 12/1/2004) •Information Bulletin for Librarians (2000 - ) DOAJ •Information Research (1995 - ) DOAJ •Information Technology and Disabilities (1994 - ) DOAJ •Information Technology and Libraries (3/1/2001 - 3/1/2004) •Intellectual Property Laws and Treaties (1/1/2002 - ) •Interactions : UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies•Journal of Information, Law and Technology

DOAJ 78 LIS Journals

J-Gate(3000+Open Access Journal)http://www.openj-gate.com

Library and Information Science http://www.asiaosc.org/topic9.html Asian open source centre – promoting open source and

free software in Asia   http://www.eprint.rclis.org E-Prints in Library and Information Science   http://www.lii.org Librarian’s Internet Index   http://www.nrcfoss.org.in National Research Centre for free/Open Source Software

Open Access Journals in LIS” are collection of home pages of open access journals collected from different sources, such as DOAJ, BUBL, SciLO, PloS, ALIS, SPARC, etc. The Open Access Journals in LIS serves LIS community by enhancing the knowledge domain of the practicing librarians & professionals.