Directory of Open Access Journals Helps Authors to Find Appripriate OA Journal to publish at

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is offering a new service, OA News Blog reports. The new "for authors" service lets authors look up journals by keywords and find both full OA journals and hybrid OA journals. Even better, users can filter the results and choose to look only at the no-fee journals or the fee-based journals.

Comment by Peter Suber (OA News Blog author): This is a very useful new service. Authors looking for journals that will offer OA to their articles will want to scan both the full and hybrid OA journals. It appears that only full OA journals, and no hybrids, appear in the main directory of OA journals. I only tested it on a handful of hybrids, but the pattern seems to hold. If true, this was the right decision. Readers looking for OA literature will be more interested in full OA journals than hybrids; and if they want to look at the hybrids, they can use the new "for authors" service.