The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA). It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free, without delay or user-registration requirement, and meeting high quality standards, notably by exercising peer review or editorial quality control. DOAJ defines those as open access journals where an open license is used so that any user is allowed immediate free access to the works published in the journal and is permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of [the] articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose. The mission of DOAJ is to "increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language."
The International Journal of Speleology is since 1978 the official peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Union Internationale de Spéléologie. Since 1981 it has been published by the Società Speleologica Italiana.
"Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" is an article written by Science correspondent John Bohannon that describes his investigation of peer review among fee-charging open-access journals. Between January and August 2013, Bohannon submitted fake scientific papers to 304 journals owned by fee-charging open access publishers. The papers, writes Bohannon, "were designed with such grave and obvious scientific flaws that they should have been rejected immediately by editors and peer reviewers", but 60% of the journals accepted them. The article and associated data were published in the 4 October 2013 issue of Science as open access.
Check List is a peer-reviewed, open access, on-line scientific journal that publishes Annotated Lists of Species (ALS), Notes on Geographic Distribution (NGD), Distribution Summary (DS), Book Reviews (BR) and Forum Papers (FP). The journal was established in 2005 to serve as a mean of publishing inventories that are essential for studies on biogeography and provide a baseline for conservation studies. Since 2017 it has been published by Pensoft Publishers.
Acta Biológica Colombiana is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of biology with special emphasis on the Neotropics. It is published by the Science Faculty of the National University of Colombia and was established in 1982. The editor-in-chief is Gabriel Antonio Pinilla Agudelo. The journal is available online from its homepage and from Redalyc and SciELO.
Earth System Dynamics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. The journal publishes articles describing original research on the geology, climate change, and atmospheric science.
Sustainability is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published by MDPI. It covers all aspects of sustainability studies. The journal has faced criticism over its quality. In September 2021 the journal was among the initial 13 journals included in the official Norwegian list of possibly predatory journals, known as level X. In 2022 the Norwegian national publication committee and Finnish Publication Forum determined that Sustainability is not an academic journal and removed it from the register of approved journals starting from 2023. The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Acta Mechanica et Automatica is an English-language peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes high-quality theoretical and experimental articles on all aspects of mechanics, automation and robotics. The journal was founded in 2007 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Bialystok University of Technology. The Scopus CiteScore, which measures average citations received per article published in the serial, is 0.5 (2016).
The Journal of Oleo Science is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the various agricultural, biological, chemical, health, medical, nutritional, and physical properties of fats and oils. It is published by the Japan Oil Chemists' Society and the editor-in-chief is Osamu Shibata.
Kowsar is an STM publishing company which was founded in 2002 by S.M. Miri and Seyed-Moayed Alavian. Kowsar journals have been peer reviewed and are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License Non Commercial 4.0. The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Frontiers of Biogeography is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing biogeographical science, with the academic standards expected of a journal operated by and for an academic society. It published on behalf of the International Biogeographical Society, using the eScholarship Publishing platform. The current editor-in-chief is Robert J. Whittaker.
Biogeographia: The Journal of Integrative Biogeography is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing original research and reviews in biogeography since 1970. It is published on behalf of the Italian Biogeography Society, using the eScholarship Publishing platform. The current editor-in-chief is Diego Fontaneto.
Tropicultura is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original articles, research and summary notes, overviews of books and essays, announcements and reports on films / audio-visual resources concerning all fields linked to rural development, as well as sustainable management of the environment in overseas countries. It is published on the Portail de Publication de Périodiques Scientifiques (PoPuPS) platform operated by the University of Liège Library. The current editor-in-chief is J. Bogaert.
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing research articles and short communications in all branches of geosciences. It the official journal of the Geological Society of Finland. The current editor-in-chief is Dr. Niina Kuosmanen. From 1929 to 1967, it was known as Comptes Rendus de la Société Géologique de Finlande before changing to the current name from Volume 40 onwards to the present day.
Estudios Geológicos is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing research articles and reviews in Earth Sciences. It is a journal operated by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), with the Geosciences Institute at the Complutense University of Madrid. The current executive editor is Jose María Cebriá Gómez.
Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original articles advancing the state of theoretical knowledge in the transdisciplinary area of cliodynamics. It is an initiative of The Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside. The current editor-in-chief is Peter Turchin.
Geochemical Perspectives Letters is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original research in geochemistry. It is published by the European Association for Geochemistry.
Geologica Carpathica is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal publishing original research on the geology of the Carpathian-Balkanian and adjacent regions. It is an official journal of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, and is co-published with the support of the Earth Science Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Polish Geological Institute, and the Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage is an electronic scientific journal, published in Open Access by eum - edizioni università di macerata., promoted by the University of Macerata (Italy), and founded by Massimo Montella in 2010.
Lambda Nordica is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal of LGBTQ studies. The journal is oldest of its kind in the Nordic region, dedicated to interdisciplinary research in lesbian/gay/bi/trans* and queer studies. It aims to foster international collaboration and dialogue, and to offer junior as well as senior researchers an opportunity to publish in both English and the Scandinavian languages. The journal also reviews Nordic and international literature in the field of LGBTQ studies.
