Open Educational Resources (OER)

Coverage:

• Subject: all scientific and scholarly subjects are covered
• Types of resource: scientific and scholarly periodicals that publish research or review papers in full text.
• Acceptable sources: academic, government, commercial, non-profit private sources are all acceptable.
• Level: the target group for included journals should primarily be researchers.
• Content: a substantive part of the journal should consist of research papers. All content should be available in full text.
• All languages

Access:

• All content freely available.
• Registration: Free user registration online is acceptable.
• Open Access without delay (e.g. no embargo period).

Quality: For a journal to be included it should exercise quality control on submitted papers through an editor, editorial board and/or a peer-review system.