The development of open-access journals has been one of the most exciting developments in academic scholarship during the last two decades. Open-access journals are free publications that are available to everyone without hindrance of subscription fees, logins, contracts, or other barriers. They provide universal access to research and knowledge.
Access to this journal content has been facilitated by the development of open access databases, most notably the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Maintained by the Infrastructure Services for Open Access, the database provides access to over 2 million journal articles from countries throughout the world. This is a multidisciplinary database with coverage in the arts, biology, business, environmental sciences, medicine, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and the social sciences. All journals are also peer-review or have editorial quality control, making DOAJ an excellent resource high quality, current research.
The Directory of Open Access Journals can be accessed from the databases link on the library homepage.