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What are Open Access Journals?

Open access journals are free and unrestricted and differ from traditional journals by allowing users to read online, download, or print at no cost.

General Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

This directory provides access to high quality, open-access, peer-reviewed journals.  Here, you will find content from various disciplines, geographies, and languages.

International Journal of Education and Arts

This journal primarily publishes peer-reviewed research-based field studies.  It focuses on art theory, music education, visual arts education, media education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic studies that cross these fields.

Elsevier Open Access Journals

These open-access journals published by Elsevier are peer-reviewed and are permanently free for everyone to read and download.

Open Access Journals

OpenAccessJournals.com is "committed to bring forth genuine and reliable scientific contributions to the relevant community."

Wiley Open Access Journals

Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative, peer-reviewed open-access journals across many research disciplines.

Oxford Academic Open Access Journals

Oxford University Press has been publishing open access content since 2004, and contains a wide variety of fully open access journals.

Canadian Research Knowledge Network Open Access Journals List

With the goal of improving the discoverability of gold open access journals, CRKN maintains a list of open access journals maintained by CRKN institution.

Open Access Journals by Discipline

Business

Springer Open Business Journals

Features a wide variety of open access journals in business, management, and law.  

 

Criminal Justice

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

The Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice publishes coverage of the theoretical and scientific aspects of the study of crime and the practical problems of law enforcement, administration of justice, and the treatment of offenders, particularly in the Canadian context.  Published by the University of Toronto Press.

 

Education

American Educational Research Association

AERA publishes seven highly respected, peer-reviewed journals that feature the field's leading research.

Education Next

Education Next aims to provide news and research to bring evidence to bear on current education policy.

Current Issues in Education

Current Issues in Education is an open access, peer-reviewed academic education journal produced by doctoral students at Arizona State University.

 

Early Learning and Child Care

The School Community Journal

This journal includes research and field reports related to the school as a community of teachers, parents, and staff.  The journal covers topics that range from pre-k classrooms to college classrooms and everything inbetween.

AERA Open

This journal is peer-reviewed and published by the American Educational Research Association.  Their aim is to advance knowledge related to education and learning through rigorous empirical and theoretical study.  Studies in early childhood, after-school, primary, and secondary, and post-secondary education are included in this journal.

 

English

88 Open Essays - Composition and Rhetoric

A collection of 88 open essays that is intended to provide instructors with a wide variety of nonfiction examples of good writing that can be used to teach composition.

 

 

Nursing and Health Care

The Open Nursing Journal

This open access online journal publishes research articles, reviews/min-reviews, letters, and guest edited thematic issues for all areas of nursing.  This peer-reviewed journal is an important and reliable source of current information on developments in the field.

BMC Nursing

BMC Nursing is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of nursing research, training, education, and practice.

 

Social Work

Advances in Social Work

Advances in Social work is a peer-reviewed journal that published original work.  Since 2008, "this journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available supports a greater global exchange of knowledge."

The International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies

This journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary, cross-national journal that is committed to scholarly excellence in the field of research about and services for children, youth, families, and their communities.

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