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Open Access Journals Directories or Portals

These directories are far from complete :

Directory of Electronic Journals University Library of Regensburg ( a directory including about 4 300 closed or open access journals evaluated collectively by 213 libraries and research centers)
List of Open Access Journals ( Budapest Open Access Initiative )
Directory of Open Access Journals ( Lund University Libraries - OSI funded project )
Directory of Open Access Journals
SPARC partner journals
Free OnLine Journals and Databases Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)
Free Online Full-text Articles (List of journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press)
List of Earth's Largest Free Full-Text Science Archives
Revues électroniques scientifiques francophones (AUF)
Portal of scientific journals of Croatia

Directories of Online Journals
( Open Access and Subscription based )

Online-Only Journals Monitored by CAS (Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biosciences )
Chemistry: Journals & Other Publications (Laboratory of Molecular Electrochemistry Italy)
ChemConnect list of Journals ( rather exhaustive ).
New Jour (UCSD)
The list at Cambridge "Since 1995, this page has held one of the world's most comprehensive and up-to-date lists"...
Online Journals (Iena)
Magazines, Books, Catalogues from "The Homepage for chemists" ( German site ) : not exhaustive
Electronic Journals in Biology ( Harvard )

A list of Open Access Journals

Note: This list is intended to be as complete as possible in the domain of chemistry (physical,organic). Concerning biochemistry, biosciences and other fields (physics, publishing) it is far from being complete. Please contact us if you want to indicate journals that we have unwillingly forgotten.

CHEMISTRY

Molecules ( MDPI, Synthetic Chemistry, General Chemistry )
International Journal of Molecular Sciences ( chemical physics, physical chemistry, molecular biology ).
Internet Journal of Vibrational Spectroscopy ( used to be sponsored by Perkin-Elmer. )
Chemical Journal on Internet (China)
Chemistry Letters (The Chemical Society of Japan)
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan (The Chemical Society of Japan)
Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry(The Chemical Society of Japan)
The Journal of Computer Chemistry, Japan ( some papers in English, some in Japanese )
The Journal of Chemical Software ( in Japanese )
Acta Chimica Slovenica
Indian Academy of Sciences journals
- Chemical Sciences
- Croatica chemica acta
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ( chemistry section ) (free Archive of 6 month old papers )
PhysChemComm Unusual time-limited FREE access : Articles published in PhysChemComm are freely accessible for four months after publication. Commercial archive !
PCCP ( Phys, Chem. Chem. Phys ) ( 1997 to 2000 Archive freely available )
Electronic Journal of Environmental , Agricultural and Food Chemistry
HYLE International journal for philosophy of chemistry.
CERAPIE (Chemistry Education: Research and Practice in Europe )
University Chemistry Education (Royal Society)
Chemical Informatics Letters
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology
Indian Academy of Sciences journals
- Journal of Biosciences
PubMed Central (PMC) U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
- Nucleic Acids Res.
BioMed Central (Interestingly, this is one of the few for-profit Open Access Journals)
BioLine ( Journals )
Neurobiology of Lipids
Palaeontologia Electronica

MEDECINE

PHYSICS

Entropy ( MDPI Interdisciplinary Journal of Entropy and Information Studies)
New Journal of Physics (An Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft journal) (Article charge : US$560, it is interesting to notice that charges for physicists in Utah are paid by the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) , it is also free of charge for Chinese scientists ).
Optics Express published by the Optical Society of America (Author's fee: $325:1-6 published pages, $750 :7-15 pages )
Chinese Physics
Chinese Physics Letters
European Journal of Physics All papers are made freely available for 30 days from the date of online publication. Only the Letters to the Editor keep being freely available.
Journal of Physics :Condensed Matter only the Letters to the Editor are freely available.
USPEKHI FIZICHESKIKH NAUK (in Russian)
Indian Academy of Sciences journals
- Pramana
Electronic Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Europhysics News
High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine

APPLIED MATHEMATICS

ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis)
Biological Sciences Journals Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology (Free access provisionnal only - The Berkeley Electronic Press Journals )
Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques
Libre aux archives de Annales de l'institut Fourier, Journées Équations aux dérivées partielles, Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Bulletin de la SMF, Annales scientifiques de l'École normale supérieure.

TECHNOLOGY

COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATICS

First Monday

PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIAL SCIENCES

Psycoloquy (Steven Harnad ) ( PsycPrints is running on EPrints2 archive-creating software, which generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 2.0 )
Revues.org ( in French : Fédération de revues en sciences humaines et sociales soutenue par le Ministère de la Recherche )
PsychNology Journal ( investigating the relationship between humans and technology )

PHILOSOPHY

Exchorésis

PUBLISHING

Ariadne magazine
Data Science Journal
D-Lib (digital library research and development)
Journal of Electronic Publishing

LAW

The Electronic Law Journals Project

ECONOMICS

the Economics Bulletin
Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce ( Open Access journal since 1996 )

Copyrights policies of a few commercial Journals

Nature ( some comments )

Free Archives of Masters's & Doctoral Dissertations

Univ. Groningen
Scripta Academica Lundensis
CyberThèses

FREE preprints-reprints archives

ArXiv .(Physics, Maths, Nonlinear sciences ).
French mirror of ArXiv
List of OAI1 Archives (Open Archive Initiative)
List of OAI2 Archives (Open Archive Initiative)
OAIster (List of OAI archives)
Eprints (OAI, Australia )
PubMed Central A web-based archive of journal literature for all of the life sciences.
High Wire (Free archive at Stanford)
List of the largest free archives (HighWire)
eScholarship Repository (Univ. of California)
SciX Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange
CECM Preprints (Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics)
Astrophysics Data System ( NASA - Harvard )
PrePRINT Network (US Department of Energy)
CERN Articles & Preprints
Multidisciplinary Thesis Server (CCSD)
HAL - Hyper Article en Ligne
PhilSci Archive (Philosophy of science)

For information

ChemWeb preprint server (operated by Elsevier) It is an OAI-protocol compliant ressource but it does not mean it is an "Open Archive". This is a temporary ressource publication. It does not constitute an archive proprio sensu i.e a permanent repository of past works. This is not an open access journal. The American Chemical Society does not accept papers that have been stored beforehand on the ChemWeb server.

FREE online books

Online Book Pages ( more than 18,000 English works in various formats that are all free for personal, noncommercial use)
- Chemistry
- Physics

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