In DOAJ 24 open access journals from Costa Rica are included.
Is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals.
The Costa Rica collection of open access journals in Redalyc indexes 16 journals, and the Scielo Costa Rica collection has 11 open access journals.
But research just published in BMC Medicine (an open-access journal from Springer) suggests papers in open-access journals are as widely cited as those in traditional publications.
Prestige has its uses and the open-access journals will, no doubt, establish a pecking-order among themselves fairly quickly.
In a move watched throughout academia, Harvard in April urged its faculty members to publish in open-access journals.
They have minimised the threat from open-access journals, which seemed considerable a few years ago, in part by buying some of the best ones.
Creation in 2007 of a Digital Repository of Journals published by the University of Costa Rica, with 45 open access full-text journals and plans to move to a OJS platform.
Costa Rica has 72 open access full-text journals linked from Latindex, coordinated in Costa Rica by the University of Costa Rica.
The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas.
Other models exist that are hybrids of these three, such as delayed open-access, where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months, before making it freely available to everyone who wishes to see it.
Projects: OA Publishing agreement with Springer to make available articles by Dutch researchers in Springer journals will be made available Open Access, with author's approval.
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