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Open Access Resources: Journals

Selected Subject Repositories for Journal Articles

See the Open Access Directory (OAD) for a full list of OA subject repositories by discipline.

User OpenDOAR to browse for repositories by subject area.

arXiv
Subjects: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics
SSRN
Subjects: Social Sciences & Humanities, including Accounting, Anthropology & Archaeology, Cognitive Science, Corporate Governance, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Economics, Hebrew, Humanities (Classics, Literature, Music & Composition, Philosophy, Rhetoric & Communication), Information Systems & eBusiness, Innovation, Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Political Science, Social Insurance, Sustainability
AgEcon
Subjects: Applied Economics, including Agriculture, Consumer, Energy, Environmental, & Resource Economics
CoRR
Subjects: Computing; see a full list of subject areas

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Search the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for open access journals and articles.

Business Models for Open Access Journals

Open access journals support themselves in many different ways.
Some journals (such as BioMedCentral) require the author to pay an article processing charge
Others (such as E-Life) are supported by funders
According to the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) project, about 33% of open access journals charge a fee. 59% of those fees are paid by funders (such as the NIH) and 24% are paid by universities through other grants

Library Support for Open Access Journals

The Penn Libraries also support the publishing of open access journals.

ScholarlyCommons - supports the publishing of new e-journals including the College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal (CUREJ)

Institutional Memberships

BMJ Case Reports
Penn Libraries has an Institutional Fellowship with BMJ Case Reports that ensures authors will not have to pay individual fellowship fees. Additionally, all faculty, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania will be able to submit as many cases as they like as well as access to and reuse of all the published material. Here is a helpful User's Guide.
PeerJ and PeerJ Computer Science -- Penn Libraries have an institutional plan with the PeerJ journals. PeerJ is a peer review open-acess publisher. It publishes articles on biology, medicine, general science, and all aspects of computer science. The libraires support a lifetime membership at the Basic level (basic level provides one article per year) for Penn faculty who have been accepted for publication with PeerJ.

Consortia

ArXiv - Penn Libraries belongs to ArXiv, a repository well over 1,000,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
SCOAP3 - Penn Libraries supports SCOAP3, a repository for journals in high energy physics

Journal Statements on Open Access

MLA Statement on Publication in Electronic Journals

General

Open Humanities Press
Browse journals and books published under a Creative Commons license and without an embargo. The publications can be read for free online and downloaded; paper copies may also be purchased at a reasonable cost.

Penn Resources

ScholarlyCommons is Penn's institutional repository; it houses research done by the Penn community.

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