Thursday, April 21, 2011

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

Demand that NSF follow NIH's lead on open access publishing

Three years ago this week, the National Institutes of Health announced that all medical research they fund would have to be published as "open access" -- available to anyone, for free, over the Internet. The policy has been a huge success, but now it's time for the rest of the government to follow suit.

For more details, please visit: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/nsf/?source=bb

Monday, April 04, 2011

Open Access Journals

Open access journals are providing access of research articles tthrough variety of journals without limitation like- legal, financial and technical anywhere anytime. The seemless access of research articles is one of the best resources for the researches. DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is one of the link in such a great movement. Thousands of journals and millians of articles are available in this directory right from the social sciences to pure sciences.

DOAJ is now having a great potential to be one of the best reseach tool. DOAJ can be accessed via www.doaj.org.