November 7, 2008

Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry

Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry

Chemistry Online Resources - Chemical Literature

Link - http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/

"About the Directory ABC Chemistry : Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry

Accessibility of a great number of online chemistry journals is subjected to a mixed paying policy: the publisher may grant free access to a selected set of volumes (issues) while the admission to the rest of the database may be open just to subscribers or paying visitors. Quite often the information on the availability status is hidden deeply in the publisher's website pages and this complicates finding the free part of content.

The Directory makes this task easier by listing the fully and partly free journals that comply with the following criteria:

* publisher's grading of a journal as peer-reviewed;
* one-year, at least, free full-text content, or extensive free supplements to printed versions of papers;
* chemistry or chemistry-related subject coverage;
* English language of articles (journals in Russian are also listed on a separate page).

We selected the journals based on their free availability to reader, but not on publishers’ strategies, which were different (Open Access Initiative, publisher's promotional strategy, government's funding, etc.) for different journals and publishers"[1].
1.http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/about.htm

Analytical Inorganic Organic Physical

Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals

Chemistry Online Resources - Chemical Literature

Link - http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=60

"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 take the right 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"[1].
1.http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=about

Analytical Inorganic Organic Physical

ChemPort

ChemPort

Chemistry Online Resources - Chemical Literature

Link - http://www.chemport.org

"ChemPort is a linking technology developed by Chemical Abstracts Service. It is a free service for customers of CAS electronic services as well as our publishing partners. ChemPort provides two main services: ChemPort Connection and ChemPort Reference Linking"[1].
1.http://www.chemport.org/html/english/general.html

Analytical Inorganic Organic Physical