Der Begriff "Open Access" steht für freien Zugang zu Studienergebnissen und die Demokratisierung der Wissenschaft. Viele derartiger Zeitschriften verzichten aber offenbar auf die Kontrolle der eingereichten Artikel. Eine frei erfundene Studie wäre zigfach abgedruckt worden.
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4905 journals in the directory. Currently 2003 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 383849 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
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