Journals access free in the area of law

Abstract

The impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enables periodic changes in fingerprints.

The Movement for Free Access to Information (ALi) promotes the socialization of knowledge to allow

unrestricted access to content available in online format. A periodic assessment arises from the need to reflect

the quality of information recorded. This article discusses the open-access journals in the fi eld of law falling

within strata A2, B1, B2 and B3 for Qualis/CAPES (Base Year 2007) with regard to meeting the standards of

normalization. The method is characterized by exploratory, descriptive, document and quantitative and

qualitative analysis. Of the sixty-three journals identified in the strata mentioned, eleven are freely available.

It was drawn up a checklist for Open Access Journals based on the literature and identified himself only as

indicators title and subtitle of the journal, search engine, institution, title and subtitle of the article and

authors presented one hundred percent of meeting the criteria Checklist. Concludes that the absence of

standards, guidelines and criteria in open access journals negative interference in the dissemination of

scientific production, which directly affects the retrieval of information.