I am an advocate of an Open Access movement. Open access (OA) – is the free online availability of digital content. It is best-known and most feasible for peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles, which scholars publish without expectation of payment.
For more on Open Access you can read this short and excellent piece from Peter Suber, from Earlham College , an Open Access guru – “A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access”
Jumping to physiotherapy open access content, I would like you to know that there is some physio content published in Opened Access format.
For instance, The Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ), lists scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards and are free to all from the time of publication.
DOAJ includes publications from around the world, in many languages. It is possible to browse through the journals, or search for articles within many of the journals through a web interface. The aim of the project is to “increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact”. DOAJ is managed by Lund University Libraries.
DOAJ includes some physiotherapy publications as well:
1) Journal of Physical Therapy Science
ISSN: 09155287
Subject: Therapeutics
Publisher: Society of Physical Therapy Science
Language: English
Keywords: physical therapy , medicine
Start Year: 1995
2) Journal of the Japanese Physical Therapy Association
ISSN: 13441272
Subject: Therapeutics
Publisher: The Japanese Physical Therapy Association
Language: English
Keywords: physical therapy, medicine
Start Year: 1998
3) New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy
ISSN: 03037193
Subject: Therapeutics
Publisher: New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists
Language: English
Keywords: physiotherapy
Start Year: 2003
Moreover, there more than 2,220 additional journals from other subject area in the directory, including Sports Medicine , and Nursing , which might be of interest to some of you. These are completely free ! Please feel free to browse, search and read relevant content.
And, hey , don’t forget to thank Open Access folks at the Lund University in Sweden 🙂