1. What is DOAJ? Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

2. Who is responsible for this service? Directory of Open Access Journals is hosted, maintained and partly funded by Lund University Libraries Head Office. DOAJ has received or is receiving funding from: Swedish Library Association http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/ http://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/ INASP http://www.inasp.info/http://www.inasp.info/ Open Society Institute http://www.soros.org/http://www.soros.org/ SPARC http://www.arl.org/sparc/http://www.arl.org/sparc/ SPARC Europe http://www.sparceurope.org/http://www.sparceurope.org/ BIBSAM http://www.kb.se/bibliotek/http://www.kb.se/bibliotek/ Axiell http://www.axiell.se/http://www.axiell.se/

3. Coverage: Subject: all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered Types of resource: scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text. Acceptable sources: academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources are all acceptable. Level: the target group for included journals should be primarily researchers. Content: a substantive part of the journal should consist of research papers. All content should be available in full text. All languages

4. Access: All content freely available. Registration: Free user registration online is acceptable. Open Access without delay (e.g. no embargo period). Quality: Quality control: for a journal to be included it should exercise quality control on submitted papers through an editor, editorial board and/or a peer-review system. Periodical: The journal should have an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number, for information see http://www.issn.org).http://www.issn.org

5. The records in DOAJ contain the following fields: Journal Title The title of the journal. ISSN The ISSN number of the journal. EISSN The EISSN of the journal (in case the journal has one). Subject The topic of the journal. Publisher The entity responsible for the publishing of the journal. Country Country of publication. Language Language(s) of the full text articles. Keywords Keywords of the topic of the journal. Start Year When the journal became electronically available as open access in full text. End Year (only if it is continued by a new journal) When the journal ceased to exist.

6. Use "Find journals" to search for journals included in DOAJ. The system will search through all fields in the record, except subject and year. Use "Search articles" to search for articles in the journals having DOAJ CONTENT. You can choose to make your search in any of the following fields: All fields Title Journal title ISSN Author Keywords Abstract If you write more than one word in your search query it will be treated as a phrase. You also have the possibility to use the Boolean operators and, or, not.