Open Access Journals in the Sciences
What Is Open Access?
If you are new to the concept, begin with Peter Suber's overview.
Search Google Scholar for article indexing
- Advanced Scholar Search -- some science publishers permit free access to articles after an embargo period (e.g., 6 months to 2 years after publication)
PubMed.gov for biomedical article indexing
- PubMed links to open access articles, when available
Open Access Journals in all Science Disciplines, global index
- Open Science Directory (OSD)
- A-Z list in OSD: Click on the Subjects tab > Pull down to Science > to see journal lists for specific disciplines
Open Science Directory includes titles in the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), plus hundreds more in every science subject.
Subject Specific Open Access Archives (selected)
- BioMedCentral
- Free Medical Journals
- PubMedCentral
- Public Library of Science -- PLoS Biology, plus six other major journals
- OARE -- Online Archive of Research in the Environment
- Project Euclid -- Mathematics and Statistics online
Last updated:
May 26, 2011
May 26, 2011