Open access journals in the field of computer science and technology-An analytical study of the DOAJ

The main purpose of the study was to analyse various aspects of open access journals in the field of computer science and technology registered in DOAJ. The data were collected from the DOAJ in the month of September 2017. The results revealed that 256 open access journals are registered in the DOAJ in the discipline of computer science and technology published by 162 publishers in 13 languages from 46 countries of the world. The highest number of journals is available on the subfield computer applications followed by the electronic computers. The majority of journals are published from Indonesia and in the English language. The majority of journals have no article processing charges and almost one-third of the journals charge article processing fee. Further, almost all the journals use creative common (CC) licenses for the maximum copyright freedom and adopt peer-review systems for quality control and improvement.