JourList
A Free Database of Open Access Journals
About JourList
Aim & Scope: The aim of the JourList Free Database of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The JourList aims to be comprehensive and cover linguistic, semiotic, civilization, cultural and literary open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Definitions: We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.
Quality Control: The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.
Research Journal: Journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community.
Periodical: A serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings.
Metadata information: Resources will be catalogued on journal title level. To make article level content searchable in the system, journal owners are encouraged to supply us with article metadata when a journal has been added into the JourList. If you are a journal owner and have not received this information, please contact us.
Project Background: The proliferation of freely accessible online journals, the development of subject specific pre- and e-print archives and collections of learning objects provides a very valuable supplement of scientific knowledge to the existing types of published scientific information (books, journals, databases etc.). However these valuable collections are difficult to overview and integrate in the library and information services provided by libraries for their user constituency. At the Department of French Philology of Alecu Russo State University of Balti, Republic of Moldova (http://www.usb.md/catfilfr.html) the idea of creating a comprehensive database of Open Access Journals in Linguistics (Applied and Comparative Linguistics), Semiotics, Civilization, Culture Studies and Literary Science was discussed. The conclusion was that it would be a valuable service for the global research and education community. Available technologies make it possible to collect and organize these resources in a way that allow libraries worldwide to integrate these resources in existing services thus offering added value both for the service providers of these resources and for the global research and education community.
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