Open Access

Open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.

Peer-reviewed, open access journals including all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences.

Open access journals and books published by Cambridge University Press.

Open access journals published by Elsevier with articles that are free for everyone to read and download.

An open access, multidisciplinary journal that publishes research in all areas of the biological, health, physical, chemical and Earth sciences.

A journal that publishes multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary works on subject areas across science, engineering, medicine, and the related social sciences and humanities.

A peer-reviewed open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles that span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) open access multidisciplinary journal, publishing research papers and reviews in any area of science, in both disciplinary-specific and broad, interdisciplinary areas.

An open access journal publishing original research from across all areas of the natural sciences, psychology, medicine and engineering.

An open-access journal publishing social science research in the context of food, agriculture, and natural resources. The journal presents knowledge focused on education, extension, human capacity building, diffusion of innovations, leadership, and communication in the context of food, agriculture, and natural resources.

The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) is a peer reviewed journal published in Kenya by the Africa Scholarly Science Communications Trust (ASSCAT). Publications covers a wide range of scientific and development disciplines, including agriculture, food, nutrition, environmental management and sustainable development related information.

Free full-text access of scholarly research in the fields of agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted entirely to animals, including zoology and veterinary sciences, published semimonthly online by MDPI.

The scope and focus of the Journal of Horticultural Sciences are on all branches of horticulture and other cognate disciplines. It publishes review articles, research papers, and short communications of both basic and applied aspects of original research related to horticultural sciences.

Open Agriculture is an open access journal from De Gruyter’s Open Access portfolio, publishing original articles and reviews reflecting the latest achievements on agriculture and related topics.

An open access journal that focuses on the areas of life, medical, and physical science. Cell Reports publishes papers across the entire life sciences spectrum. The primary criterion for publication in Cell Reports is new biological insight.

Publishes on all areas of biology and medicine.

mBio® seeks to reflect the enormity of the interconnected microbial world: from symbiosis to pathogenesis, energy acquisition and conversion, climate change, geologic change, food and drug production, and even animal behavioral change.

Open Biology is an online journal that publishes research in cell and developmental biology, molecular and structural biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics.

Publishes significant advances across the biological sciences

Features works of exceptional significance that further our understanding of living systems at all scales from molecules and cells, to patient populations and ecosystems through the application of computational methods.

Publishes human studies, as well as research on model organisms.

Stem Cell Reports is an open access forum communicating basic discoveries in stem cell research, in addition to translational and clinical studies. Stem Cell Reports focuses on manuscripts that report original research with conceptual or practical advances that are of broad interest to stem cell biologists and clinicians.

An online and print, open access, peer-reviewed journal of business management published by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. Areas include: Management, Management and Organization, Strategic Management, Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, Financial Management, Economics, Banking, Marketing, Production Management, Information Technologies (IT), Quantitative Methods, Management Education, Accounting Education, Business Ethics, Accounting Ethics, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Intellectual Capital, International Business, Business Communication, and Tourism Management and Commercial Law.

An open access journal dedicated to cryptocurrency research. Ledger aims to encourage greater involvement by academics in cryptocurrency and foster a culture of rigorous analysis and peer-review within the Bitcoin community.

An international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal of logistics and supply chain management published quarterly online by MDPI.

Theoretical Economics publishes leading research in economic theory. It is published by the Econometric Society four times a year, in January, May, July, and November. All content is freely available.

A platinum open access journal of organic chemistry free to authors and readers. Arkivoc publishes papers of interest to organic chemists in areas of synthetic organic chemistry, bio-organic, organometallic, theoretical, and physical organic chemistry.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of chemistry that is published semimonthly online by MDPI.

RSC Advances publishes advances in chemistry, and in topics of interest to the chemistry community.

The official, bi-monthly, online-only scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Offers university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence and machine learning investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers the latest information about the computational aspects of all the facets of research on language.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on digital technologies and digital application, particularly with how such technologies affect our health, education and economy, published quarterly online by MDPI.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on information and communication technologies, human–computer interaction, and social informatics, and is published quarterly online by MDPI.

A scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal of information science and technology, data, knowledge, and communication, and is published monthly online by MDPI.

The Journal of Altmetrics is an Open Access, international, peer reviewed journal in the areas of alternative metrics (i.e. altmetrics), as they pertain to Scholarly, Social Media and Science communications as well as Research Policy & Higher Education.

A peer-reviewed journal that aims to advance the knowledgebase and practice of health sciences librarianship.

The journal includes articles from all areas of librarianship, and from all types of libraries within Pennsylvania. The journal will consider all submissions that report original research (research articles), highlight innovative initiatives (practice articles), or discuss current trends/challenges (editorial/commentary). Each issue will also feature news items (collections, services, awards, events, etc.) from Pennsylvania’s libraries.

The purpose of the Dialogic Pedagogy Journal is to advance international scholarship and pedagogical practice in the area of dialogic pedagogy.

A peer-reviewed, open-access, international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary journal designed for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and development analysts concerned with education policies.

An international peer-reviewed open access journal that focuses on current issues in education, educational policy, curriculum studies, pedagogies, and educational history.

A quarterly peer-reviewed publication on international education. The journal publishes research on international students in secondary and tertiary education institutions, as well as displaced, migrant, and other immigrant student populations, including refugees, DACA holders, temporary protected status, and undocumented minorities.

An online publication that advances knowledge of Montessori education through empirical research studies, critical reviews of the literature, theoretical essays, and scholarly book reviews available in an open access forum.

An open-source, peer-reviewed, quarterly online publication dedicated to advancing youth development practice and research. JYD serves applied researchers and evaluators as well as practitioners who work in youth-serving organizations or the intermediaries that support them.

Numeracy publishes evidence-based articles on teaching strategies and resources, education research, curriculum design, assessment strategies, and faculty development, as well as perspectives, reviews of educational resources, and commentaries/replies that support the creation of a more quantitatively literate world.

An open access journal of related scientific research, technology development, engineering, and the studies in policy and management and is published semimonthly online by MDPI.

A peer-reviewed online journal that provides a central vehicle for the exchange of basic ideas in heat and mass transfer between researchers and engineers around the globe. It disseminates information of permanent interest in the area of heat and mass transfer.

A peer-reviewed, open access journal of polymer science published semimonthly online by MDPI.

An open access, international journal for research articles across all aspects of materials science, topics include functional and structural materials, synthesis and processing, theoretical analyses, characterization and properties of materials.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on coastal engineering, management, conservation, biology and ecology, published quarterly online by MDPI.

A fully open access, inter-disciplinary journal for researchers to publish maps and spatial diagrams across the physical and social sciences.

An online peer-reviewed journal devoted to the timely consideration of Texas water resources management, research, and policy issues from a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates science, engineering, law, planning, and other disciplines.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal promoting significant research on all aspects of the visual and performing arts, published bimonthly online by MDPI.

An open access and peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly and artistic explorations of the diverse ways in which the complexities of being in time are expressed.

An open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities published by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

EMR publishes original research articles, commentaries, editorials, book reviews, interviews, letters, and data sets. Suitable topics include music history, performance, theory, education, and composition -- with an emphasis on systematic methods, such as hypothesis-testing, modeling, and controlled observation. Submissions pertaining to social, political, cultural and economic phenomena are welcome. Theoretical and speculative articles are welcome provided they contribute to the forming of empirically testable hypotheses, models or theories, or they provide critiques of methodology.

An international, scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journal for scholarly papers across all humanities disciplines.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on applied mathematics published quarterly online by MDPI.

A peer-reviewed, open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to mathematics, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI.

A repository of freely downloadable mathematical works hosted by the American Mathematical Society.

Publishes works from undergraduate engineering and science students, focusing on applied interdisciplinary projects involving mathematics applications.

This journal offers cases and expert commentary, health humanities and education articles, policy and equity discussions, social and cultural context perspectives, journal-based and multimedia continuing education materials, visuals, and more.

A peer-reviewed, open access journal on all aspects of antibiotics, published monthly online by MDPI.

An international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on biomedicines published monthly online by MDPI.

An open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research. The journal has a special focus on digital health, governance, health policy, health system quality and safety, healthcare delivery and access to healthcare, healthcare financing and economics, implementing reform, and the health workforce.

BMC Medicine publishes research in all areas of clinical practice, translational medicine, medical and health advances, public health, global health, policy, and general topics of interest to the biomedical and sociomedical professional communities.

An online open access journal that publishes medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas.

The official publication of the Faculty of Physical Therapy at Cairo University. It is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing articles on wide range of topics of physical therapy and rehabilitation including original research, clinical effectiveness, and emerging technologies in assessment and treatment.

A peer-reviewed, open access journal of oncology, published semimonthly online by MDPI.

A journal that publishes papers in all aspects of dentistry. Areas of interest include the molecular basis of human oral and craniofacial disease, craniofacial development, craniofacial regeneration, technology development, translational dental research, the impact of oral health on overall health, and epidemiological studies.

An online, open-access publication, that provides an inclusive forum for action-oriented dialogue among human rights practitioners. The journal endeavors to increase access to human rights knowledge in the health field by linking an expanded community of readers and contributors.

An international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on health care systems, industry, technology, policy, and regulation, and is published monthly online by MDPI.

An international, open access, peer-reviewed bimonthly journal dedicated to publishing the latest research and clinical cases related to clinically relevant evidence, trends, and practices. Its purpose is to advance and improve the rehabilitation and care of athletes and recreationally active individuals throughout the world.

A biannual journal dedicated to advancing telerehabilitation by disseminating information about current research and practices.

An open access journal that publishes studies that provide understanding of the biology and/or treatment of disease, with an emphasis on clinically relevant basic and translational research. Includes all biomedical specialties: autoimmunity, Gastroenterology, immunology, metabolism, nephrology, neuroscience, oncology, pulmonology, vascular biology, and many others.

An Open Access, international, peer reviewed journal in the area of transformative scientific developments that provide new concepts and paradigms in treatment of human disease.

A peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics, and is published monthly online by MDPI.

An open access journal that publishes human studies, as well as research on model organisms—from mice and flies, to plants and bacteria. Our emphasis is on studies of broad interest that provide significant insight into a biological process or processes. Topics include (but are not limited to) gene discovery and function, population genetics, genome projects, comparative and functional genomics, medical genetics, disease biology, evolution, gene expression, complex traits, chromosome biology, and epigenetics.

PLOS Medicine publishes articles of general interest on biomedical, environmental, social and political determinants of health. The journal emphasizes work that advances clinical practice, health policy or pathophysiological understanding to benefit health in a variety of settings.

An open access journal that publishes research devoted to the pathology, epidemiology, prevention, treatment and control of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), as well as relevant public health and policy.

Reflecting the full breadth of research on bacteria, fungi, parasites, prions and viruses, PLOS Pathogens publishes original research and commentary that significantly advance the understanding of pathogens and how they interact with their host organisms.

A peer-reviewed, open-access orthopaedic journal devoted to publishing papers in the areas of total joint arthroplasty.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI.

An open access journal publishing original astronomical research, with an emphasis on significant scientific results derived from observations. Publications in AJ include descriptions of data capture, surveys, analysis techniques, astronomical interpretation, instrumentation, and software and computing.

An open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research across a range of specialties including cosmology and extragalactic astronomy in all wavelengths.

A peer-reviewed, fully open access online journal, that publishes research, reviews and news spanning all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics. The journal disseminates research in both observational and theoretical astronomy, astrophysics, solar physics, cosmology, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, high energy particles physics, planetary science, space science and astronomy-related astrobiology, presenting as well the surveys dedicated to astronomical history and education.

An open-access, online-only journal dedicated to the rapid dissemination of high-impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of optics and photonics.

An online-only, fully open access journal that places a high value on innovation, quality, and long-term impact in the science it publishes.

An open-access, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with primary focus upon analytical, theoretical and methodological articles in the field of public policy.

A journal that focuses on contemporary court administration and management.

A double-blind peer reviewed open access journal and the flagship journal of the most important world-wide association for public policy in the social sciences, the International Public Policy Association (IPPA).

An international scholarly publication of the Gonzaga University Institute for Hate Studies that promotes the sharing of interdisciplinary ideas and research relating to the study of what hate is, where it comes from, and how to combat it.

An open access journal that publishes scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access, journal publishing research on public administration and management, specifically in the Asia-Pacific region. PAP is owned and jointly sponsored by Hong Kong Public Administration Association and SPEED, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

A fully open access journal that publishes papers that apply sound statistical thinking and methods to issues related to public policy. The journal is an official publication of the American Statistical Association (ASA).

The official journal of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE), a nonprofit organization established in 1978 as a multidisciplinary group dedicated to the exploration and understanding of aging within and across the diversity of human cultures.

The subject matter of articles published in Archives of Scientific Psychology® spans the entire discipline of psychology. Journal readers will find articles on subjects ranging from neuroscience to political psychology, and all topics in between. Articles will also describe research conducted using any of the methods used by researchers in psychology—experimental, descriptive, and research synthesis, quantitative and qualitative.

An official publication of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) that publishes research articles in most areas of psychology.

A journal publishing peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology.

An international, scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to the analysis of genealogical narratives (with applications for family, race/ethnic, gender, migration and science studies) and scholarship that uses genealogical theory and methodologies to examine historical processes.

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on inquiry of change and continuity of human societies (on various scales and with different approaches, including environmental, social and technological studies), published quarterly online by MDPI.

A peer-reviewed, no fee open access annual scholarly journal publishing research in or related to Hungarian Studies, that is, all aspects of Hungarian culture across the humanities and social science disciplines. Articles related to Hungarian diaspora communities as well as Hungarians in the neighboring states of Hungary are also of interest. Articles published are based on a wide range of perspectives and utilize a plurality of theories and methodologies, with a comparative, multicultural and multidisciplinary nature.

An open access philosophy journal that publishes papers on the history of philosophy from the 16th century to the turn of the 20th century.

The Latin American Research Review (LARR) publishes original research and review essays on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latina/Latino studies. LARR covers the social sciences and the humanities, including the fields of anthropology, economics, history, literature and cultural studies, political science, and sociology.

An open-access, online, peer-reviewed, international journal for social scientists committed to advancing a general understanding of social processes. Sociological Science publishes research and commentary from all subfields of sociology.

An international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. It provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI.