Open Access Publishing: Liberating Information, Welfare, and The Economy

In between all of the information accessed by college students around the world, they all thank the good lord for their lasting sanity, and Open Access information in their journey of writing their thesis at 3 AM.  According to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), there are over 10,000 fully open access (OA) peer-reviewed scholarly journals from 130 countries, offering 1.7 million searchable articles. The above numbers reflect that in less than a decade, almost one-third of the world's scholarly journals are now open to everyone with an Internet connection.