Information should be free
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Have you ever wanted to learn about something on the internet only to hit a paywall. A paywall only allows you to read the article if you pay money first. When I look for information on the internet, I depend upon free, full text, and quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The Directory of Open Access Journals provides this service.
The Directory of Open Access Journals covers all subjects and languages. There are now 2423 journals in the directory. Currently 709 journals are searchable at the article level. As of today 118178 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Junk science not allowed
Open access means I can "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" Quality control means the journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control.
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Well free is an interesting concept. What you are arguing for is open access. All of those publications have to fund their operations in some fashion. They aren't free but rather funded and open. I love the open model but also know that some of these free operations often aren't sustainable for lack of a good funding model.
I agree that funding is important. I am really happy, though, that open access is possible and want to share links to all this wonderful information. Here is another one:
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