Szczepanski’s List of Open Access Journals: An Informal Commentary

The resource, as you might guess, is Szczepanski’s List of Open Access Journals and it’s being made available—for free—by EBSCO at https://www.ebsco.com/open-access/szczepanski-list. Here’s the full blurb from the EBSCO page...

It’s an amazing effort, and quite wonderful that he’s making it freely available—and that EBSCO’s supporting that free effort. There do appear to be more than 35,000 entities on the list—my estimate is somewhere around 35,871. While the list includes what I’d think of as earth sciences and mathematics (more specifically, geography, geology, oceanography, meteorology, mathematics and statistics), those make up about 5,115 of the total, leaving around 30,756. That’s still a phenomenal number, given that I count 4,785 active DOAJ journals in the humanities and social sciences, plus 329 in earth sciences and 211 in mathematics (including statistics). Jan’s list has around 6.7 times as many entities. ...

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