Open Access Engineering Journals
I am thinking of adding links to open access engineering journal titles below. This will be an evolving list of titles with their access points. You all are welcome to add titles as you find them as well. Any Journal not in the Directory of Open Access Journals - Technology and Engineering is the best candidate for this post. The question is: Are there any titles (engineering) not in this directory? How do we find them?
Posted by: Jay Bhatt, Drexel University
Roddy MacLeod from Heriot-Watt University recommends Open J-Gate, an electronic gateway to global journal literature that indexes more that 3000 open access journals. He further suggests that, “But what would be most useful would be an RSS feed of new titles by subject, from these two directories. That way we could all keep up with new titles in our subject areas.”
Here is the first item that Roddy found:
INGENIERÍAS
Magazine of the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the Independent University again Leon
August 25th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
There are two other sources that I know of that list OA titles in addition to DOAJ and Open J-Gate.
The first is Jan Szczepanski’s lists at the University of Skovde of over 4500 current and over 750 historic OA-journals. See http://www.his.se/templates/vanligwebbsida1.aspx?id=20709. Only problem is, engineering doesn’t have its own category on that site. Engineering (and computer science) titles are in the “unsorted” category at the end of the list. Makes the site less that helpful for the project that Jay is suggesting.
The second (and newest) list is LivRe (http://livre.cnen.gov.br/Default1024.asp). It lists only 2500+ titles, but _does_ at least have engineering categories. Also, if you’re interested in computer science titles, they’re under the “Exact and Earth Sciences” heading.