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Open Access offers the free dissemination of information without restrictions to the scientific community for research and educational purposes. Although Open Access advocates free, direct and continuous, unrestricted and unencumbered online access to scientific content, in reality it is not applied hundred percent. But, in order to apply the concept of Open Access, if not to a hundred percent, but to its maximum extent, according to the Budapest Declaration, there are two main ways in which it can be used. The Green Open Access, which involves self-archiving, where authors themselves deposit their article, even if it has not gone through the peer review process, on any basis they wish on the Internet. Also there is the Gold Open Access, which is what this paper is based on, as online scholarly journals use business models to provide free access to articles that have undergone the peer-review process. Using the SCImago database, a scientific database that measures the number of citations from a scientific journal, "Library and Information Science" journals were searched and investigated to identify the economic models they use to be free to access. In addition, the type of peer-review process they use and also, which content licenses (copyright) they adopt were recorded.