Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Access Journals

The Benefits of Open Access Journals

Visibility
Open access journals are available to anyone, at any time, and without a subscription. This increases the visibility and readership of research.

Accessibility
Open access journals eliminate financial or copyright barriers, making them more accessible to students, faculty, and researchers

Citation impact
Open access literature often receives more citations than subscription publications.

Selected Open Access Journal Sources

Academic Journals
Academic Journals is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
Bentham Open
BENTHAM OPEN publishes a number of peer-reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences.
BioMed Central
Free access to approx. 300 peer-reviewed journals in the biomedical fields published by BioMed Central (BMC).
BMJ Open
BMJ Open is an online, open access journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas. The journal publishes all research study types, from study protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small, specialist studies, and negative studies. Publishing procedures are built around fully open peer review and continuous publication, publishing research online as soon as the article is ready.
Cambridge University Press Open
At Cambridge University Press, Open Access submissions are accepted in more than 350 journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is an extensive online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals in a wide variety of fields.
Elsevier Open Access Journals
All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Permitted re-use defined by the author's choice of Creative Commons user licenses.
InTech Open Science Journals
Three open access, international, peer-reviewed journals in STEM fields.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
ScienceDirect Open Access Journals
Science, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering and technology, physics, medicine and more.
SpringerOpen
Includes Springer’s portfolio of 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science.
Taylor & Francis Open Journals
Approx. 340 full open-access journals in STEM fields, plus economics, business, and finance.
Wiley Open Access
Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.