The document discusses open access literature and journals. It defines open access as online, free of charge literature without copyright or licensing restrictions. Open access journals do not charge readers or institutions for access. They cover their costs through article processing fees, advertising, or subsidies. The document lists several open access journal publishers and databases. It also discusses Indian open access biomedical journals and databases like IndMED and MedKnow. Finally, it provides a list of 73 open access library and information science journals collected from sources like DOAJ, PubMed, and SciELO.

1. Dheeraj Singh Negi

3.  Open access literature is online, free of charge
to readers, and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions.
 “immediate, permanent, toll-free, non-gerrymandered,
online access to full text .
(BOAI)
 new form of distribution -online, free of charge,
and free of needless licensing restrictions- is
called open access.

4.  Open access journals are defined as, “journals
that use a funding model that does not charge
readers or their institutions for access
 A journal will be classed as open access if all
articles in that journal are freely accessible
 OAJs pay the costs of publishing through one of
three basic economic models: Article
processing fee/submission charge to authors or
author institutions; advertising or corporate
sponsorship; or subsidies and grants ;

5. Sl. No. Publishers
Web Address
1 Africa Journals Online http://www.inasp.info/ajol/indexfr.html
2 BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/
3 High Wire Press http://www.highwire.org/
4 JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/
5 Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofssience.org
6 Pub Med Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
7 SciELO http://www.scielo.org

6.  AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) -
http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ :Provides a collection of 846
commercially published journals in the fields of food, agriculture,
environmental science and related social sciences
 DOAJ(Directory of Open Access Journals) http://doaj.org: gateway
that aims to link to all open access scientific journals that use an
appropriate quality control system (i.e. peer review). It is managed
by Lund University and supported by the Soros Foundation, and
currently provides access to over 1,500 electronic journals in all
academic disciplines
 ELSSS – Electronic Society for Social Scientists –
http://www.elsss.org.uk

7.  HINARI (¨Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) -
http://www.healthinternet work.org/scipub.php?lang=en : HINARI provides free
access to more than 2,000 commercially published scientific journals and other
biomedical literature. It also includes Elsevier’s librarianship and information
science journals.
 LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) -
http://www.libraryresearch.com : Published by EBSCO.This indexes more than 600
periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings,
 Open J-Gate(http://www.openj-gate.com) :compiled by Informatics.It indexes
articles from 3000+ academic, research and industry journals .

8.  Open Access journals in India focusing mainly
in the area of Medical and Allied Sciences.
 India has cover 300 biomedical journals that
include hospital newsletters and bulletins out
of which a fraction of these are covered in
international resources like Medline.

9.  IndMED (over 75 journals)
 MedKnow (over 20 prominent Indian biomedical
journals)
 J-Gate (Informatics India)
 Indian National Science Academy
 Indian Academy of Science

14. University of Nevada. Free E-Journals
Contains 73 journals
From DOAJ, PubMed, SciELO and individual socurces

15. •ALAN Review: Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (1/1/1994 -
3/1/2001)
•Ariadane (1996 - ) DOAJ
•ARL Newsletter (2/1/1996 - )
•Boston Review (6/1/1975 - )
•Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (1/1/1911 - 10/31/2001)
Pubmed
•Chinese Librarianship (6/1/1996 - )
•Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal (1996 - ) DOAJ
•CLIR Issues (1/1/1998 - )
•Computer-mediated communication magazine (5/1/1994 - )
•Cultivate Interactive (5/1/1999 - 2/1/2003)
•Cyberlaw Informer (3/4/1999 - 5/2/2001)
•D-Lib Magazine (1995 - ) DOAJ
•E Law (1/1/1993 - 12/1/2004)
•Information Bulletin for Librarians (2000 - ) DOAJ
•Information Research (1995 - ) DOAJ
•Information Technology and Disabilities (1994 - ) DOAJ
•Information Technology and Libraries (3/1/2001 - 3/1/2004)
•Intellectual Property Laws and Treaties (1/1/2002 - )
•Interactions : UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
•Journal of Information, Law and Technology

16. DOAJ 78 LIS Journals

17. J-Gate(3000+Open Access Journal)
http://www.openj-gate.com

18.  Library and Information Science
 http://www.asiaosc.org/topic9.html
 Asian open source centre – promoting open source and free
software in Asia
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 http://www.eprint.rclis.org
 E-Prints in Library and Information Science
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 http://www.lii.org
 Librarian’s Internet Index
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 http://www.nrcfoss.org.in
 National Research Centre for free/Open Source Software

19. Open Access Journals in LIS” are collection
of home pages of open access journals
collected from different sources, such as
DOAJ, BUBL, SciLO, PloS, ALIS, SPARC,
etc. The Open Access Journals in LIS
serves LIS community by enhancing the
knowledge domain of the practicing
librarians & professionals.