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 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. [1] http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess
Subject: all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered
Types of resource: scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text.
Acceptable sources: academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources are all acceptable.
Level: the target group for included journals should be primarily researchers.
Content: a substantive part of the journal should consist of research papers. All content should be available in full text.
All languages
Access:
All content freely available.
Registration: Free user registration online is acceptable.
Open Access without delay (e.g. no embargo period).
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).
Resources will be catalogued on journal title level. To make article level content searchable in the system, journal owners are encouraged to supply us with article metadata when a journal has been added into the directory. If you are a journal owner and have not received this information, please contact us.