Open Access Journals List 2026

Are you looking for a list of free open access publishing? Then you are in the right place.

Here, we provide an updated list of scholarly, peer-reviewed Gold, Green, and Hybrid Open Access Journals.

Before driving to list let's talk about what are the academic open access journals.

What is open access?

Open access means that research articles are freely available online to anyone, without any paywalls or restrictions.

This means that anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, and adapt the article for any non-commercial purpose under creative commons license.

It aims to make research more accessible to everyone (Free-to-read journals), including researchers, students, and the general public, promoting wider dissemination of knowledge and supporting scientific progress.

Open Access Journals List 2026	ISSN
Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy	20753470
COSSMA	14397676
Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy	20615558
Corrosion Science and Technology	15986462
Corrosion Science	0010938X
Corrosion Reviews	03346005
Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology	1478422X
Corrosion and Protection	1005748X
Correspondances en MHND	21009619
Cornova	18046983
Cornell Law Review	00108847
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy	10690565
Cornell International Law Journal	00108812
Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies	13954199
COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	15412555
Coordination Chemistry Reviews	00108545
Convivium Poland	21968403
Convivium	00108235
Convergencias Revista de Investigacao e Ensino das Artes	21840180
Convergencia	14051435
Control Engineering Practice	09670661
Control Engineering and Applied Informatics	14548658
Control and Optimization in Applied Mathematics	23833130
Control and Cybernetics	03248569
Contributions to Zoology	13834517
Contributions to Tobacco and Nicotine Research	27199509
Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy	13352806
Contributions to Entomology	0005805X
Contratexto	10259945
Contrastive Pragmatics	26660385
Contrastes	11364076
Contradictions	25707485
Contraception and Reproductive Medicine	20557426
Contexto	20071639
Contemporary Southeast Asia	0129797X
Contemporary Social Sciences	20960212
Contemporary Ob Gyn	00903159
Contemporary Nurse	10376178
Contemporary Management Research	18135498
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies	17409292
Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly	18144810
Contemporary Economics	20840845
Consultant	00107069
Constructivist Foundations	1782348X
Construction History	02677768
Construction and Building Materials	09500618
Constitutional Review	24600016
Constitutional and Legal Academic Studies	26635399
Consortium Psychiatricum	27127672
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage	19744951
Conservar Patrimonio	1646043X
Conservacion Colombiana	19001592
Connexe	24065749
Connection Science	09540091
Connecticut Medicine	00106178
Confluencia	08886091
Conflict and Society	21644543
Condensed Matter Physics	1607324X
Condensed Matter and Interphases	1606867X
Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A Bridging Education and Research	15466086
Concept Philosophy, Religion, Culture	25418831
CONCAWE Reports	01660810
Con A de Animacion	21736049
Comunicacion y Sociedad Mexico	0188252X
Comunicacion y Medios	07163991
Comunicacao e Sociedade	16452089
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems	01989715
Computers in Industry	01663615
Computers in Human Behavior	07475632
Computers in Education Journal	10693769
Computers and Structures	00457949
Computers and Security	01674048
Computers and Mathematics with Applications	18737668
Computers and Industrial Engineering	03608352
Computers and Graphics	00978493
Computers and Geosciences	00983004
Computers and Fluids	00457930
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture	01681699
Computers and Electrical Engineering	00457906
Computers and Composition	87554615
Computers and Chemical Engineering	00981354
Computer Standards and Interfaces	09205489
Computer Software	02896540
Computer Science Review	15740137
Computer Science Journal of Moldova	15614042
Computer Science and Information Systems	18200214
Computer Science China	1002137X
Computer Science	15082806
Computer Research and Modeling	20767633
Computer Physics Communications	00104655
Computer Optics	01342452
Computer Networks	13891286
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Imaging and Visualization	21681163
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering	00457825
Computer Assisted Methods in Engineering and Science	22993649
Computer Aided Geometric Design	01678396
Computational Toxicology	24681113
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis	01679473
Computational Methods for Differential Equations	23453982
Computational Materials Science	09270256
Computational Linguistics	08912017
Computational Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	29743435
Computational Geometry Theory and Applications	09257721
Computational Continuum Mechanics	19996691
Computational Biology and Chemistry	14769271
Computational and Theoretical Chemistry	2210271X
Comptes Rendus Physique	16310705
Comptes Rendus Mathematique	1631073X
Comptes Rendus de LAcademie Bulgare des Sciences	13101331
Comptes Rendus Chimie	16310748
Comptes Rendus Palevol	16310683
Comptes Rendus Mecanique	16310721
Comptes Rendus Geoscience	16310713
Comptes Rendus Biologies	16310691
Comptabilite Controle Audit	12622788
Comprehensive Psychiatry	0010440X
Composites Science and Technology	02663538
Composites Part B Engineering	13598368
Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing	1359835X
Composite Structures	02638223
Complexity	10762787
Complex Systems and Complexity Science	16723813
Complex Systems	08912513
Complex System Modeling and Simulation	20969929
Complex and Intelligent Systems	21994536
Complementary Therapies in Medicine	09652299
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice	17443881
Comparative Southeast European Studies	27018199
Comparative Population Studies	18698980
Comparative Parasitology	15252647
Comparative Legilinguistics	20805926
Comparative Law Review	08669449
Comparative Economic Research	15082008
Comparative Cytogenetics	19930771
Community Eye Health Journal	09536833
Communitas	10230556
Communio Viatorum	00103713
Communications of the Association for Information Systems	15293181
Communications in Science and Technology	25029258
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation	10075704
Communications in Information Literacy	19335954
Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization	25382128
Communications in Analysis and Mechanics	28363310
Communications Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina	13354205
Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae	0231133X
Communication and Society	02140039
CommIT Journal	19792484
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici	00102571
Comechingonia	03267911
Coluna Columna	18081851