Biology

Definitions

Open Access Journal: We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access", we support the rights of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

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 intending to appear, indefinitely at regular intervals and generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings.



Selection Criteria Coverage: •Subject: all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered •Types of resource: scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text. •Acceptable sources: academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources are all acceptable. •Level: the target group for included journals should primarily be researchers. •Content: a substantive part of the journal should consist of research papers. All content should be available in full text. •All languages

Access: •All content freely available. •Registration: Free user registration online is acceptable. •Open Access without delay (e.g. no embargo period). Quality: For a journal to be included it should exercise quality control on submitted papers through an editor, editorial board and/or a peer-review system.