Publish in Open Access Journals

An open access journal allows anyone with Internet access to freely view the complete text of its articles. It may also utilize a Creative Commons Attribution License (or similar license) that allows articles to be used for scholarly and other purposes as long as they are properly referenced. This eliminates the need for scholars and others to determine if a particular use is permitted by copyright law under fair use provisions and, if it is not, to obtain permission.

By publishing in an open access journal, you can be sure that your published articles will be immediately available to as wide an audience as possible, including scholars in small colleges and in developing countries who may not normally have access to a wide variety of conventional scholarly journals. Open access may increase the visibility and citation impact of your articles.

To find an open access journal to publish your article in, use the Directory of Open Access Journals.

You may also want to consider publishing in journals that offer free content on a delayed basis or offer partial free content, even though they are not fully open access. To find journals that may be fully open acess or free to some extent, see: