Open academic online journals

There are now thousands of open academic online journals worldwide. Their financial basis varies: they may, for example, be published by a given institution or be based on author fees, membership fees of a specific community or voluntary subscriber fees.

The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) provides access to online journals in a variety of academic fields. Journal Info is another source where users can find information about subscriber-fee journals and tips about the OA journals available in each field.

DOAJ only contains around twenty academic journals openly published in Finland. Most of them are in English. The website of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies has a list of links to Finnish academic online journals. Openly accessible Finnish online journals can be searched through the Suoma service.

The range also includes other than academic journals, as well as journals of which only parts can be openly accessed online.
Organisations that set up openly accessible online journals can also use publishing platforms, some of which are centrally available in portals (e.g., BioMedCentral and PLOS).

The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies offers Finnish academic publishers the Open Journals Systems publishing system, which is well suited for the publication of open online journals.