What is Open Access (OA) Journals Directory? Well! We have answered that in our last post, please click here and have a look if you just want to recollect. This article is all about a list of journals that have open access. And not only that, but the article also includes the topic which you just wanted to explore more i.e., Gold Open Access and Green Open Access. 

Let us first understand how Open Access Journals Directory benefits the Authors, Readers, and Funders. 

• Authors: The work produced by authors reaches more people.
• Readers: As this work gets uploaded before the non-open access works, the readers can have access to it and can start working on their respective fields latest work.
• Funders: As mentioned above, the Open Access list of journals has more reach, thus the work funded by the funders has a broader impact.

With the benefits of Open, Access Journals Directory cleared, let us have a close look at the ways to Open Access Journals.

1. Gold Open Access Journals: The gold open access journals are the ultimate version of the work and are permanently free to access. The access of Gold OA is free to access as soon as it gets published. The authors retain the copyrights of the work and they remove all access barriers. Gold open access articles can be published in two journals.

• Full Open Access Journals: In this type of journal, the entire content has open access.
• Hybrid Journals: This type of journal are subscription-based. It offers open access to certain articles that have been granted open access by the authors.

If you want to know more about Gold Open Access please connect with Journals Directory.

2.  Green Open Access Journals: Green Open Access, also known by the term “self-archiving”. ‘Self-archiving’ refers to the author’s manuscript that has been placed in a repository, to be freely and openly accessed by people. The version of the manuscript that has to be placed in the repository is totally in the hands of the publisher and the funder. In Gold Open Access the copyrights are retained by the authors, such is not the case in Green Open Access. The Copyright of the article is in the hands of the publisher, or the society it is connected with or the title. There are restrictions also in reusing the Green OA, there is only a certain amount of area or section that can be reused. These restrictions are based on the self-archiving policies, which are followed by the publisher or the journal to decide the number of sections to be allowed to access.

There comes a period, where the article is made openly and freely accessible to all in the repository, this period is called the embargo period.

These two ways can be utilized to get an Open Access Journals Directory. If you are cleared with the terms, have a look at our list of journals. Open Access Journals Directory will help you with a range of journals that you can have open access to the recent works in your field.