Web search engine
- A curated academic search-engine, indexing 4,303 free ejournals in the arts & humanities : http://www.jurn.org/
- Paperity , multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers : http://paperity.org/
Synthetic Website
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) : http://www.doaj.org/
- Charles W. Bailey’s reading list on open access journals : http://digital-scholarship.org/oajb/toc.htm
- Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Open Access Journal Business Guides
- BOAI. Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002. Open Access Journal Business Guides. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/resources.shtml
- A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems : https://wiki.library.jhu.edu/display/epubs/Home
- SPARC Open-access Journal Publishing Resource Index (2011) http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering/planning/index.shtml
Impact factor
- The Impact Factor of open access journals. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1rF9RcqzpowYmY3ZTdkYWItZmQ0OS00YmFiLThjY2EtMzI1MjljYmE2NTE2/edit?pli=1
Some useful bibliographic references
- Abel L. Packer. The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South. Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur, Volume 39, No. 3, 2009, pages 111-126 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cjhe/article/view/479/504:
- Donald W. King. An Approach to Open Access Author Payment. D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2010. Volume 16, Number 3/4 : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/king/03king.html
- Edgar, B. D. & Willinsky, J. (in press). A survey of the scholarly journals using Open Journal Systems. Scholarly and Research Communication : http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJS%20Journal%20Survey.pdf
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David J Solomon, Bo‐Christer Björk (pre-print 2011). Publication Fees in Open Access Publishing: Sources of Funding and Factors. Influencing Choice of The Journal : http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/apc/