open access journals
Directory of open access journals is hosted by the University of Lund (Sweden) library and lists academic journals that have an open access policy. This means that they do not charge for subscription, and they do have to meet academic criteria of peer review.
Academic journal publishing is big business. But weird. Academics traditionally write material for free, review it for free, then pay a lot of money for the publication. As academics we provide most of the intellectual property (for free) but seem to think it is ok for publishing houses to then make money from this. Once upon a time there wasn’t much choice – you needed printing presses and the like to publish academic work. Now with the net we don’t need books or journals. We can print it online. It is cheaper, faster, easier. It also means that we don’t need publishers. Hence initiatives like this.
open access journals
Directory of open access journals Directory of open access journals is hosted by the University of Lund (Sweden) library and lists academic journals that have an open access policy.