Chemistry

Open Access journals

Check our page about Open Access publishing if you want to know more about journal quality control.

• The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• The directory ABC Chemistry also lists a number of OA chemistry journals
• Important OA publishers are Hindawi, INTECHopen and BioMedCentral
• The OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) membership page

 Subject Repositories

• OpenDOAR lists a number of suitablesubject repositories
• arxiv.org
• OAD list a number of subject repositories as well. In principle these disciplinary archives are accessible for all researchers, regardless of the author’s institutional affiliation

 Open Data Repositories

• ZENODO is a repository service that enables researchers, scientists, projects and institutions to share and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data and publications) that are not part of existing institutional or subject-based repositories–
• Dryad is a nonprofit repository for data underlying the international scientific and medical literature
• figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner

• De Open Access Directory lists a couple of open data repositories. Some examples:

  • ZINC. : A free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening.
  • Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
  • WorldWideMolecularMatrix : An Open collection of information on small molecules
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• The Data Hub is an openly editable open data catalogue, in the style of Wikipedia, powered by CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation). You can consult and add datasets. Datasets are more or less thematically ordered:
  • http://thedatahub.org/group/chemistry
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