# 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
* Genome Research
* International Journal of Biological Sciences
* Israel Journal of Entomology
* Molecular Systems Biology
* Myrmecological News
* Nature Communications
* Oncotarget
* Open Biology
* Open Life Sciences
* PLOS Biology
* PLOS Computational Biology
* PLOS Genetics
* Science Advances
* 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

* Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal
* 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
* Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge

## 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
* Cureus
* Dermatology Online Journal
* Emerging Infectious Diseases
* International Journal of Medical Sciences
* Journal of the American Heart Association
* Journal of Clinical Investigation
* Journal of Diabetes
* 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
* Existenz

## Physics

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

## Pluridisciplinary

* GigaScience
* Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners
* 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
* 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

## 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