LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Access Journals

What is an Open Access Journal?

Open Access (OA) stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse. Here’s why that matters.

Most publishers own the rights to the articles in their journals. Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to access them. Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way must obtain permission from the publisher and is often required to pay an additional fee.

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Open Access Journals

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BioMed Central BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology, and Medicine) publisher with an open access publishing model.
Directory of Open Access Journals All the journals included do not charge for their content. They also undergo a peer-review or quality control process. These journals are academic in nature, and can be distributed to your class without violating copyright. These journals cover all topics and are from a variety of countries.
PubMed Central PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)