Open Access Journals
Open Access Journals are devoted to the notion that "immediate unrestricted access to scientific ideas, methods, results, and conclusions will speed the progress of science and medicine" (Public Library of Science). The prohibitive costs enacted by scientific publishers are seen to interfere with the open spread of information and so a grass-roots initiative has formed to bypass that process. Listed below are sites devoted to the open exchange of information, collections of open access journals, and ruminations on the possible future of this initiative.
Open Access Journal Collections
- BioMed Central Journals
- Springer Open Access Journals
- Free Medical Journals
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Public Library of Science
- PubMed Central - A searchable database for open-access journals
- Europe Pubmed Central