How do I find open access journals?
You can use following platforms to find OA journals:
- DOAJ: You can find a list of open access journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- ROAD: You can also use ROAD (Director of Open Access Scholarly Resources).
- SciELO: The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is another option.
Where can I find free open access journals?

The Top 21 Free Online Journal and Research Databases
- CORE. CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA research.
- ScienceOpen.
- Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Education Resources Information Center.
- arXiv e-Print Archive.
- Social Science Research Network.
- Public Library of Science.
- OpenDOAR.
Is the Directory of Open Access Journals reliable?
Conclusions. The Directory of Open Access Journals is a reputable organisation that is designed to provide a service for reputable open access publishers to register their journals. If you can find the journal on the DOAJ web site you can be reasonably certain that the journal is credible.
Is Directory of Open Access Journals a database?
Description: Database of open access journals covering all scientific and scholarly subjects. Primarily used to identify open access journal titles and forty percent of them are searchable at the article level. Journals can be browsed by title or by broad subject area.

Where can I find open access research?
Search in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) DOAJ includes open access journals as well as articles published in these journals, and is fully searchable. If you’re considering publishing with an open access journal, we recommend checking the DOAJ to select a high-quality publisher.
Where can I find open source articles?
Specialty Open Access Platforms
- Bioline International.
- BioOne.
- CERN Document Server.
- Cornell’s ArXiv.
- Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
- Mendeley (Elsevier)
- Organic Eprints.
- Penn State’s CiteSeerX.
Are open access journals predatory?
Characteristics of predatory OA journals Predatory open-access publishing is an exploitative OA publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not).
How do I find a journal?
Tools for Finding a Journal for Publication
- Elsevier Journal Finder.
- EndNote Match: Find the Best Fit Journals for Your Manuscript.
- Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE)
- Publish or Flourish Open Access.
- Springer Journal Suggester.
- Think.
- Web of Science Master List.
What is Directory of open access books?
DOAB is a searchable database of peer reviewed scientific monographs that have been made accessible by academic publishers in open access.
How do I find open access articles in Google Scholar?
Find an article at Google Scholar
- Go to Google Scholar, enter the article title, and click Search:
- If available, your article should appear as one of the first few results:
- If you click an article’s title, you may be taken to a publisher’s site that will ask you to pay for full text.
Where are open access journals in Google Scholar?
Here’s how:
- Go to Google Scholar.
- Search for your topic.
- Click the envelope icon in the sidebar of the search results page.
- Enter your email address, and click “Create alert”.
- Google will periodically email you newly published papers that match your search criteria.
Is Hindawi a predatory publisher?
Imperfect English or a predominantly non-Western editorial board does not make a journal predatory. An interesting example is Hindawi, an Egyptian publisher once considered predatory that improved its practices and standards over time.
How do I find journals online?
Use the ‘Academic’, ‘Scholarly’ or ‘Peer-reviewed’ button in your search results. Check the journal’s homepage. Search online for the title of the journal, and the homepage will usually tell you. Ask your librarian!
How do I find journals for publications?
How do I find journals?
Are open access books free?
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
Is Google Scholar an open access?
To the delight of proponents of open access, Google’s search engine for scholarly literature has begun to include information on open-access publishing in its author profiles.
How do I search a specific journal on Google Scholar?
Searching in multiple journals simultaneously in Google Scholar
- In the search box enter ‘source:’ followed by the name of the journal inside double quotation marks. Don’t put spaces in between the word ‘source:’ and the journal title.
- Connect the word ‘source:’ with OR. This will broaden your search.
What is the difference between open access and subscription journals?
In the case of subscription journals, individuals or institutions have to pay subscription charges to have access to the journal’s content. In the case of open access journals, readers are not charged. They have free online access to the content. Good quality open access journals have a stringent peer-review process.