Open Access Journals

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was a conference convened by the Open Society Institute on December 1-2, 2001. The opening sentence of the Budapest Open Access Initiative encapsulates what the open access movement is all about, and what its potential is: "An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good." The old tradition is academic scholars giving away the results of their research. Faculty at universities are paid by universities and/or funding agencies to produce research; disseminating the results in peer reviewed venues is an expectation. Journals do not buy the articles from the authors or pay royalties on sales. The new technology is the Internet. Together, these have made it possible from everyone in the world to share knowledge freely and openly.

The above statements are all from wikipedia.com.
As an academic librarian in Malaysia, in our daily routines, we were asked by our users of "more for less" - more reference- no fees involve - from their houses- download everything for FREE!, : get it easier without going through the university library's web sites - and yet get their references. Well, it is not easy to tell them that they should call/email the librarians and they may get all the passwords. With all the passwords given to them; still they need better access to everything alse, so here we go. We will offer them of all the open access references , here are some of them, (thanks to USM Library- www.lib.usm.my )

Open Access Journals
Directory of OPEN ACCESS Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Open J-Gate
Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals,
with links to full text at Publisher sites.

PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

UNESCO Bangkok Newsletter
UNESCO Bangkok promotes international co-operation, sets standards and disseminates information in the fields of education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture and communications in the Asia and Pacific region. The sectors at UNESCO Bangkok work together on special programmes relevant to the Asia and Pacific region and beyond.

FAO Corporate Document Repository
The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format. It enables users to easily access the accumulated knowledge and information produced by FAO directly on the Internet.