Open Access: Resources

"This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards."

Connects your research and provides access to peer-reviewed open access journals.

maintains a list of member journal titles for which it provides linking infrastructure services. The mission of this non-profit is "to enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content". It is known to remove journals of dubious reputation from membership and thus from the list, so presence of a title on this list may be useful positive indicator.

Well monitored and curated list of reputable peer-reviewed open access journals.

"One main aim of this network is to help such journals to coordinate their efforts and share best practices in order to strengthen the ecosystem of independent journals and service providers."

This directory contains all universities and college's that publish open access journals.

"The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them, use them for reference, and update them."

"OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. We host repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. Each repository record within OpenDOAR has been carefully reviewed and processed by a member of our editorial team which enables us to offer a trusted service for the community."

"This tool matches a draft abstract with the best-matching open access journals."

"Funded through a model of Library Partnership Subsidies to collectively fund the venue and its array of journals."

Open journals housed by San Jose State University.

lists and describes traditionally published and open access journal titles. It can tell you whether a journal uses peer review, what discovery tools/databases index it, etc.

A journal that used to be subscription based that was flipped to an open access model. They describe their journal as "It is dedicated to publishing high-quality papers in which algebra and combinatorics interact in interesting ways. There are no limitations on the kind of algebra or combinatorics: the algebra involved could be commutative algebra, group theory, representation theory, algebraic geometry, linear algebra, Galois theory, associative or Lie algebras, among other possibilities. The combinatorics could be enumerative, coding theory, root systems, design theory, graph theory, incidence geometry or other topics. The key requirement is not a particular subject matter, but rather the active interplay between combinatorics and algebra."

"We aim to maximize the impact of scientific research through openness and global collaboration as we truly believe that science works best when research is open."

publishes high-quality papers from all areas of science that represent important advances within specific scientific disciplines, but that might not necessarily have the scientific reach of papers published in Nature and the Nature research journals.

"PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication."

an online, open access, unbranded journal from the publishers of Nature, which publishes primary research from all areas of the natural and clinical sciences.