This Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. There are now 5828 journals are available in the directory. Currently 2431 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 483307 articles are included in the DOAJ service. 20% of peer-reviewed articles across all disciplines are now freely available. The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory 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 a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" the users have a right 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.
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Chemistry
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Philosophy and Religion
Physics and Astronomy
Science General
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