Researching OA journals

You have prepared a manuscript and would like to publish Open Access in a specialist journal - but don't know exactly in which journal and whether it will cost you anything?
You need help to find the most suitable journal for your existing or planned manuscript given the number of journals?
Here you will find useful links to help you find the right Open Access journal for your publication.

We have also agreed special conditions with some publishers, be it discounts or simplified processes. Details can be found on the corresponding subpage. The tools below also draw on this information. We endeavor to keep all sources up to date.

B!SON

B!SON helps you to find a suitable open access journal. Semantic and bibliometric methods are used for this purpose.

recommends subject-relevant, quality-assured open access journals
is publisher-agnostic, free of charge, data protection-compliant, transparent and open source
a project of TIB and SLUB Dresden

The oa.finder is a search tool that not only aggregates and makes searchable information on open access, subject discipline and impact, but also provides information on APCs/BPCs and funding opportunities via transformation contracts and publication funds of German academic institutions.

This link will take you to a checklist that you can use to check the quality of open access journals on the basis of a few points. This checklist was created as part of the BMBF-funded project open-access.network.

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