Open Access Journals in the Field of Geography with Special Reference to Doaj: A study

Open Access (OA) initiative emerged as a revolutionary movement that promotes free access to scholarly publications over the Internet. OA removes the price and permission barriers and ensures the widest possible dissemination of research. OA exists where there is free, immediate and unrestricted availability of digital content. In India poor access to international journals and the low visibility of research papers are the major problems facing by academicians and researchers and OA is a solution to this problem. A number of workshops and training events were organized in India during this period, where a few thousand libraries and computer professionals received training in open source software for building open access repositories. The present paper aims to give the concept of Open access and highlights some of the Open Access Journals initiatives in India especially in the field of geography. Open Access to information and knowledge not only enables digital inclusion of common citizens, particularly under privileged communities, but also bridges social divides. The directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists open access scientific scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer review or editorial quality control and free to all from the time of publication. This paper enlists all the Geography journals on the DOAJ and their analysis based on different criteria