Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Journals · DOAJ, an independent non-profit
- Details checked
- Access confirmed
- Used and reviewed
Vetted directory of open access journals and their articles, all free to read at the publisher's own site.
Before you rely on itDOAJ links out to publishers rather than hosting files, and article-level indexing is incomplete for some journals.
Good for checking a journal is a genuine open access title rather than a predatory one before you cite or submit to it.Community pick
Details
- How you get in
- Free to readOpen to anyone, no account needed.
- Rights
- Openly licensedThe rights holder published it free, usually under Creative Commons.
- Subjects
- General
- Formats
- PDF · Web
- Languages
- Multilingual
- Size
- roughly 20,000 vetted open access journals
- Run by
- DOAJ, an independent non-profit
- Address
- doaj.org
What we checked
- Details checked
The name, address and search page were opened and checked against each other. Last run .
- Access confirmed
How you get a book here, and on what terms, was read from the library’s own statement. Last run .
- Used and reviewed
An editor searched it for real coursework and wrote the note explaining when to come here. Last run .
Every library here is authorised; shadow libraries are not listed. What the marks cover
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