List of open-access journals

This is a list of open-access journals by field. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing services.

True open-access journals can be split into two categories:

• diamond or platinum open-access journals, which charge no additional publication, open access or article processing fees
• gold open-access journals, which charge publication fees (also called article processing charges, APCs).

• African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
• Bulletin of Insectology
• Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
• Open Agriculture
• Journal of Horticultural Sciences
• Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science

• Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society
• Open Astronomy

• AMA Journal of Ethics
• Canadian Journal of Bioethics
• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

• African Invertebrates
• Biology of Sex Differences
• Biology Open
• BMC Biology
• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• BMC Genomics
• BMC Systems Biology
• Cell Reports
• Check List
• Contributions to Zoology
• Ecology and Evolution
• eLife
• F1000Research
• Genome Biology
• International Journal of Biological Sciences
• Israel Journal of Entomology
• Molecular Systems Biology
• Myrmecological News
• Oncotarget
• Open Biology
• Open Life Sciences
• PLOS Biology
• PLOS Computational Biology
• PLOS Genetics
• Scientific Reports
• Stem Cell Reports
• ZooKeys

• Acta Botanica Brasilica
• Botanical Studies
• Phytologia
• Plant Ecology and Evolution

• Arkivoc
• Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
• Chemical Science
• Molecules
• Open Chemistry
• Organic Syntheses
• RSC Advances

• Computational Linguistics
• IEEE Access
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• Journal of Computational Geometry
• Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
• Journal of Formalized Reasoning
• Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Journal of Object Technology
• Journal of Open Source Software
• Journal of Statistical Software
• Logical Methods in Computer Science
• Semantic Web
• Theory of Computing

• Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Brazilian Journal of Geology
• Geologica Belgica
• GSA Today

• Ecography

• The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
• Real-World Economics Review
• Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
• Theoretical Economics

• Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
• Comunicar
• Education Policy Analysis Archives
• Educational Technology & Society
• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
• Journal of International Students

• Energies

• Advances in Production Engineering & Management
• Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer
• Open Engineering

• Conservation and Society
• Ecology and Society
• Environmental Health Perspectives
• Environmental Research Letters
• Fennia
• Journal of Political Ecology
• Journal of Spatial Information Science
• Open Geosciences
• Nature Environment and Pollution Technology

• Anamesa
• Ancient Iranian Studies
• Continent
• Culture Machine
• Digital Humanities Quarterly
• First Monday
• GHLL
• Medieval Worlds
• Programming Historian
• Reti Medievali Rivista
• Sign Systems Studies
• Southern Spaces
• Transmotion

• Glossa
• Language Documentation & Conservation
• Per Linguam

• Duke Law Journal
• German Law Journal
• Health and Human Rights
• Melbourne University Law Review

• College & Research Libraries
• Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
• In the Library with the Lead Pipe
• Information Technologies and International Development
• Scientific Data
• Webology

• Polymers
• Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

• Acta Mathematica
• Advances in Group Theory and Applications
• Algebraic Geometry
• Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Mathematica
• Annales de l'Institut Fourier
• Arkiv för Matematik
• Ars Mathematica Contemporanea
• Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
• Discrete Analysis
• Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
• Documenta Mathematica
• Electronic Communications in Probability
• Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
• Electronic Journal of Probability
• Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
• Forum of Mathematics
• Hardy-Ramanujan Journal
• Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux
• Journal of Formalized Reasoning
• Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
• Journal of Integer Sequences
• Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems
• Münster Journal of Mathematics
• The New York Journal of Mathematics
• Open Mathematics
• Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue Applicazioni
• Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire

(omitting journals already previously mentioned)

• Annals of Saudi Medicine
• Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
• Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal
• BMC Health Services Research
• BMC Medicine
• BMJ Open
• Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
• British Columbia Medical Journal
• British Medical Journal
• Canadian Medical Association Journal
• Clinical and Translational Science
• Cureus
• Dermatology Online Journal
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• International Journal of Medical Sciences
• Journal of the American Heart Association
• Journal of Clinical Investigation
• Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
• Medicina Internacia Revuo
• The New England Journal of Medicine
• Open Heart
• Open Medicine
• PLOS Medicine
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• PLOS Pathogens
• Scientia Pharmaceutica
• Swiss Medical Weekly

• Music Theory Online

• Journal of Nutrition

• Philosophers' Imprint
• Existenz

• New Journal of Physics
• Open Physics
• Optica
• Optics Express
• Physical Review X
• Physical Review Research

• GigaScience
• Nature Communications
• Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology
• PLOS ONE
• Royal Society Open Science
• Science Advances
• Scientific Reports

• Caucasian Review of International Affairs
• Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
• Journal of Politics & Society

• Paladyn

• Cultural Anthropology
• Demography
• European Journal of Psychology Open
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Jadaliyya
• Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
• Journal of Political Ecology
• Journal of World-Systems Research
• Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities
• Swiss Journal of Social Work
• Swiss Journal of Sociology

• Bayesian Analysis
• Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics
• Chilean Journal of Statistics
• Electronic Journal of Statistics
• Journal of Official Statistics
• Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
• Journal of Statistical Software
• Journal of Statistics Education
• Revista Colombiana de Estadistica
• REVSTAT
• SORT
• Statistics Surveys
• Survey Methodology/Techniques d'enquête
• The R Journal

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