Open Science Directory: New Open Access Initiative for Developing Countries

EBSCO has recently joined forces with Hasselt University Library, Belgium, and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to develop a global Open Science Directory which is available via the Internet at no charge.

The Open Science Directory provides developing regions with a comprehensive search tool for all open access and special programme journal titles.

The Open Science Directory offers immediate access to approximately 13,000 scientific journal titles, with an objective of 20,000 titles midway through development.
Access to scientific literature is very important for the scientific work in developing countries. As a result of different projects a large collection of e-journals is now available for researchers in developing countries. The number of Open Access Journals is growing steadily as we can see in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The Open Science Directory is creating a unique access point to all the journals contained in the different programs.
Searching Options:
From the home page, click on Open Science Directory . The Portal is an A-to-Z journals list (like UJ's A-to-Z list)

You can either search directly for specific journals

OR

* Select - Journal Collections
to view all Providers of the Journals, with links to the title lists
* Select - Subjects
to view the journals per specific subject area (Economics & Finance journals can be found in under Social Sciences)
* Select - Search
to view the Advanced search screen
* Select - Custom Google Search
to search either Scholar Google (academic articles) or Google Custom Search (Search in: DOAJ - OpenDOAR - HINARI - OARE - AGORA - INASP - eJDS - Ingenta Connect)
* Select - Links
to have access to journals portals, useful websites to different organisations
* Select - About the Site
to view more information about this site

Once you access the journal of interest, there is an option to search within this journal for articles.

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