Research Guides: Open Access: OA & Your Discipline

Sort the journals in the the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) by topic area.

OA and the Humanities

Open Library of Humanities
A charitable organization dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author processing charges (APCs). Funded by an international consortium of libraries there are not author fees to publish in these peer reviewed journals.
Digital Humanities Now
Real-time, crowdsourced publication that takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, projects, tools, collections, and announcements are worthy of greater attention.
NEH Office of Digital Humanities
ODH is an office within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). It's primary mission is to help coordinate the NEH's efforts in the area of digital scholarship.
Open Humanities Press
International open access publishing collective in critical and cultural theory; peer reviewed
JURN Directory
3,000 links to selected arts & humanities ejournals. Journals listed are either free (open access), or offer significant free content.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)
OAPEN is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement across Europe a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
A free-use image resource for the educational community arranged by art historical period and keyed to major art historical textbooks, i.e. Janson, Gardner, Hartt.
Digital Archive of Art
Online Images from Boston College include images of American and European Architecture, 18th-20th Century painting, 19th and 20th Century Sculpture, and more.
Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
Digital Resources from the Society of Architectural Historians
Digital Resources to complement World and American Architecture Survey courses.

OA and the Social Sciences

This box contains links to social science repositories and interdisciplinary repositories with substantial social science material. It is by no means exhaustive and is intended to provide a sense of the range of types of resources available.

SSOAR
The Social Science Open Access Repository contains both pre- and post-print articles from a wide range of the social sciences. It is certified by the German Initiative for Networked Information (DINI). It has both English and foreign language publications.
eScholarship (University of California)
Both a repository and publishing service, eScholarship provides access to a wide range of scholarly materials from researchers associated with the UC system. Material is browsable by institution and discipline.
SSRN
The Social Science Research Network has material from across a broad range of the social sciences and is one of the largest OA repositories in the world. Coverage is also international in scope.

OA and the Life Sciences

bioRxiv.org: The Preprint Server for Biology is a free online archive and distribution service fro unpublished preprints in the life sciences. Authors make their finding immediately available and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before submission to journals.

OA and the Sciences

DOAJ Sciences
Browse the Directory of Open Access Journals has by various areas of the sciences by clicking on Subject in the limiters in the left frame.

The Sciences have often led the way in the Open Access movement. This list is by no means exhaustive and is intended to provide a sense of the range of types of resources available.

ArXiv.org
Open access to nearly 800,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. ArXiv.org is widely-recognized for having transformed communication patterns in the disciplines it serves, particularly Physics.
BioMedCentral
A pioneer in open access, BioMed Central, now owned by Springer Verlag, publishes over 60 open access journals as well as additional "toll-access" journals.
Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central, a later outgrowth of BioMed Central, publishes international, peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry.
Project Euclid
Offering nearly 20 highly-regarded mathematics journal as open access, along with additional subscription titles.
Public Library of Science
With a core principle of "giving any scientist, physician, patient, or student - anywhere in the world - unlimited access to the latest scientific research", the non-profit PLoS was one of the first, and remains one of the truly significant open access publishing houses in the sciences. Its journals are notable for their high quality and high profile, with new research reports frequently highlighted in major general news outlets.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's gateway to MEDLINE, a National Library of Medicine bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,200 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Commonly called the Astrophysics Data System, this is a digital portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. All abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher, and their use is free for personal use only. It is comprised of three bibliographic databases containing more than 9.1 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle )
SCOAP3, a consortium made up of High-Energy Physics (HEP) funding agencies, HEP laboratories, and leading national and international libraries and library consortia, is working with publishers to develop a new business model supporting conversion of five traditionally-published core HEP journals into Open Access titles. Boston College has signed an "expression of interest" in support. As of late September 2011, the tendering process has now begun.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
Open access journals are relatively rare in chemistry, but BJOC is an excellent example of one, publishing peer-reviewed, quality articles in organic chemistry. Authors publish free of charge since the journal is completely funded by the Beilstein-Institute.
Nucleic Acids Research
Long after publication of its first volume in 1974 and establishing itself as a top-tier journal in biochemistry/molecular biology, Nucleic Acids Research began its Open Access initiative in 2005. Content from 1996 on is freely available on the Oxford University Press website; earlier content can be found in PubMed Central.