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Pure gold journal

A scholarly journal that makes its articles immediately available online to the reader without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 19 May 2026

Also known as

open access journal · gold open access · born OA

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element
xml
<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Pure gold journal"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/pure-gold-journal" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
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  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/knowledge-equity-diversity-global-south-inclusion/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/pure-gold-journal/",
  "sameAs": [
    "open access journal",
    "gold open access",
    "born OA"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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