Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader “without financial, legal, or technical barriers.” 

While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author. The Neuroscience Knowledge Network which includes this top level Neuroscience Hub focuses primarily on open access content that falls under one of the Creative Commons (CC) licenses.

Web Information

Open Access Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal

Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/

About Open Access Journals

From Wikipedia 11/20/15

Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader “without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” They remove price barriers (e.g. subscription, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and most permission barriers (e.g. copyright and licensing restrictions). While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.

Some open access journals are subsidized and are financed by an academic institution, learned society or a government information center. Others are financed ...

Summary

Frontiers is a community-oriented open-access academic publisher and research network.

Frontier’s  grand vision is to build an Open Science platform that empowers researchers in their daily work and where everybody has equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge.

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Home page: http://www.frontiersin.org/

Frontiers in Neuroscience: http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroscience

About Frontiers

Frontiers is at the forefront of building the ultimate Open Science platform. We are driving innovations and new technologies around peer-review, article and author impact metrics, social networking for researchers, and a whole ecosystem of open science tools. We are the first – and only – platform that combines open-access publishing with research networking, with the goal to increase the reach of publications and ultimately the impact of articles and their authors.

Frontiers was launched as a grassroots initiative in 2007 by scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, out of the collective desire to improve the publishing options and provide better tools and services to researchers in the Internet age. Since then, Frontiers has become one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers: over 20,000 high-quality, peer-reviewed articles have been published in 45 community-driven journals across more than 300 specialty niches in science, medicine and technology, and more ...

PLOS has four open access journals that address, with varying focus, neuroscience research: PLOS Biology, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Medicine, and PLOS ONE.

PLOS also has a Neuroscience Collection of research organized in two broad categories: Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Mapping Methods and a blog with neuroscience related posts including contributors commenting on the SfN conferences called PLOS Neuro.

Web Information

PLOS Biology: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

PLOS Computational Biology: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/

PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/

PLOS ONE: http://www.plosone.org/

Neuroscience Collection: http://collections.plos.org/s/neuroscience

PLOS Neuro: http://blogs.plos.org/neuro/

OnAir Experimental Hub: http://plosneuroscience.onair.cc/

Neuroscience Collection

Cognitive Neuroscience

Memory The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Memory.

Reward & Decision Making The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Reward & Decision Making.

Emotion The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Emotion.

Social Cognition The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Social Cognition.

Connectomics The Neuroscience Collection has been ...

All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central levies an article-processing chargeto cover the cost of the publication process.

Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons.

Web Information

BioMed Central home page:   www.biomedcentral.com/

Search Journals:   www.biomedcentral.com/journals

About Biomed Central

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 276 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals, such as Retrovirology and BMC Genomics. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central levies an article-processing chargeto cover the cost of the publication process. Authors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+Business Media, and also hosts the SpringerOpen platform.

Neuroscience-related Journals

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy