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
Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal	26666936
CardioSomatics	22217185
CardioRenal Medicine	16643828
Cardiology Research and Practice	20908016
Cardiology Plus	24707511
Cardiology Journal	18975593
Cardiology Discovery	2096952X
Cardiology and Therapy	21938261
Cardiologia Hungarica	01335596
Cardiogenetics	20358253
Cardiac Failure Review	20577540
Carbon Neutralization	27693333
Carbon Neutrality	27888614
Carbon Management	17583004
Carbon Future	29600561
Carbon	00086223
Caravelle	11476753
Caraka Tani Journal of Sustainable Agriculture	26139456
Canterbury Law Review	01120581
Candollea	03732967
Cancer Science	13479032
Cancer Research on Prevention and Treatment	10008578
Cancer Research and Treatment	15982998
Cancer Research and Clinic	10069801
Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy	20972563
Cancer Nanotechnology	18686958
Cancer Innovation	27709191
Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy	03407004
Cancer Imaging	17405025
Cancer Control	10732748
Cancer Biology and Therapy	15384047
Canadian Water Resources Journal	07011784
Canadian Veterinary Journal	00085286
Canadian Theatre Review	03150836
Canadian Tax Journal	00085111
Canadian Respiratory Journal	11982241
Canadian Public Policy	03170861
Canadian Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology	1913200X
Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy	12059838
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing	07038992
Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation	08341516
Canadian Journal of Law and Society	08293201
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology	17129532
Canadian Journal of Infection Control	11835702
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology	22912789
Canadian Journal of Film Studies	08475911
Canadian Journal of Education	03802361
Canadian Journal of Addiction	23684720
Canadian Historical Review	00083755
Canadian Field Naturalist	00083550
Campbell Systematic Reviews	18911803
Cambridge Journal of Anthropology	03057674
Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies	13530089
Calvin Theological Journal	00081795
Calphad Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry	03645916
CALL EJ	21879036
California Law Review	00081221
California Fish and Wildlife Journal	2689419X
California Agriculture	00080845
Calidoscopio	16798740
Caldasia	03665232
Cakrawala Pendidikan	02161370
Cailiao Yanjiu Xuebao Chinese Journal of Materials Research	10053093
Cailiao Rechuli Xuebao Transactions of Materials and Heat Treatment	10096264
Cailiao Kexue yu Gongyi Material Science and Technology	10050299
Cailiao Baohu Materials Protection	10011560
Caikuang yu Anquan Gongcheng Xuebao Journal of Mining and Safety Engineering	16733363
Cahiers Victoriens and Edouardiens	02205610
Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport	11508809
Cahiers du Musee National dArt Moderne	01811525
Cahiers des Etudes Anciennes	03175065
Cahiers de Nutrition et de Dietetique	00079960
Cahiers de Civilisation Medievale	00079731
Cahiers Agricultures	11667699
Cadernos Pagu	01048333
Cadernos de Saude Publica	0102311X
Cadernos de Pesquisa	01001574
Cadernos de Estudos Africanos	16453794
Cadernos de Dereito Actual	2340860X
Cadernos CEDES	01013262
Caderno CRH	01034979
CAD Computer Aided Design	00104485
CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems	16734785
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology	24686557
Byzantion Nea Hellas	07162138
Byzantinoslavica	00077712
Business Theory and Practice	16480627
Business, Management and Economics Engineering	26692481
Business Lawyer	00076899
Business Horizons	00076813
Business Ethics and Leadership	25206761
Business and Politics	14693569
Burns and Trauma	23213868
Bunseki Kagaku	05251931
Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe dAnthropologie de Paris	00378984
Bulletin of Tokyo Dental College	00408891
Bulletin of TICMI	15120082
Bulletin of the World Health Organization	00429686
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov, Series III Mathematics and Computer Science	28102029
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov, Series II Forestry, Wood Industry, Agricultural Food Engineering	20652135
Bulletin of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Physics and Mathematics	18125409
Bulletin of the Serbian Geographical Society	03503593
Bulletin of the Section of Logic	01380680
Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences	02397528
Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering	11749857
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration	00264563
Bulletin of the Kyushu Institute of Technology Pure and Applied Mathematics	13438670
Bulletin of the Karaganda University Mathematics Series	25187929
Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Natural Science	04531906
Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum	10178678
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics	21819483
Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica	10124195
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology	10624740
Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences	01321447
Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Finland	0367522X
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia	01266187
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland	03675211
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark	00116297
Bulletin of the Comediantes	00075108
Bulletin of the Chinese Ceramic Society	10011625
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia	10113924
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club	00071595
Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society Simon Stevin	13701444
Bulletin of Russian State Medical University	25001094
Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences Assiut	11100052
Bulletin of National Institute of Health Sciences	13434292
Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry	10072802
Bulletin of Kamchatka Regional Association Educational Scientific Center Earth Sciences	18165524
Bulletin of Irkutsk State University, Series Mathematics	19977670
Bulletin of Insectology	17218861
Bulletin of Glaciological Research	13453807
Bulletin of Geosciences	12141119
Bulletin of Geophysics and Oceanography	2785339X
Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology	20968523
Bulletin of Geography Socio economic Series	17324254
Bulletin of Geography, Physical Geography Series	20807686
Bulletin of Educational Research	10288708
Bulletin of Educational Psychology	10115714
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences	10003045
Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis	19782993
Bulletin of Botanical Research	16735102
Bulletin Mensuel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon	03661326
Bulletin Mathematique de la Societe des Sciences Mathematiques de Roumanie	12203874
Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques	00074497
Bulletin de Litterature Ecclesiastique	00074322
Bulletin de lInstitut Scientifique, Section Sciences de la Terre	11146834
Bulletin de Liaison des Membres de la Societe de Geographie	19648995
Bulletin de lAcademie Nationale de Medecine	00014079
Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles	00379603
Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise	02497638