Reusable Content

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  
  DOAJ maintains a list of open access journals – journals that don’t charge for access. While quality control is a requirement of inclusion in DOAJ, it may be through either peer review or editorial review. So after identifying potential open access journals in which to publish, you’ll need to check submission guidelines on journal websites to find out the type of review.

• Predatory Publishers
  Jeffrey Beall keeps this list of predatory open-access publishers­ that operate on an author-pays model. The problem is not with the model but with these specific publishers. He states, "This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. I recommend that scholars not do any business with these publishers, including submitting articles, serving as editors or on editorial boards, or advertising with them. Also, articles published in these publishers’ journals should be given extra scrutiny in the process of evaluation for tenure and promotion." He writes about predatory publishers in his blog "Scholarly Open Access" at http://scholarlyoa.com/.

PLos One - leading open access journal in biological and medical sciences. A core objective is to "pursue a publishing strategy that optimizes the openness, quality, and integrity of the publication process."

PeerJ -  offers a new open source publication model different from PLos One. "Authors must become PeerJ members to publish with the journal, but membership doesn’t guarantee publication; all articles must go through peer review and meet a basic standard of scientific quality. Emphasizing open access, PeerJ leaves the rights in authors’ hands and gives them control over when and how to share preprints of their articles."