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).

Agriculture

 * 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

Astronomy

 * Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society
 * Open Astronomy

Bioethics

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

Biology

 * 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

Botany

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

Chemistry

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

Computer science

 * 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

Earth Sciences

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

Ecology

 * Ecography

Economics and finance

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

Education

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

Energy

 * Energies

Engineering

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

Geography and environmental studies

 * 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

Humanities and other journals

 * 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

Language and linguistics

 * Glossa
 * Language Documentation & Conservation
 * Per Linguam

Law

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

Library and information science

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

Materials science

 * Polymers
 * Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

Mathematics

 * 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

Medicine, pharmaceutical and health sciences
(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
 * 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

 * Music Theory Online

Nutrition

 * Journal of Nutrition

Philosophy

 * Philosophers' Imprint

Physics

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

Pluridisciplinary

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

Political science

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

Robotics

 * Paladyn

Social science

 * Cultural Anthropology
 * Demography
 * 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

Statistics

 * 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