Search the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) by subject and if you are concerned about funding publishing charges, you can refine your results by "SEE JOURNALS Without fees."
Open Access publishing is growing in the humanities and social sciences. If you're publishing humanities research, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a reputable, academy-owned Open Access publisher with no author facing publication charges. OLH journals are also indexed in the DOAJ.
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Open Access: scholarly literature that is free to read and often has various re-use rights
Article Processing Charge (APC): A publishing fee charged to the author, institution, or funder by a journal publisher.
Article Development Charge (ADC): Recently (2023) developed by publishers to “provide authors a new option to satisfy funder requirements for zero-embargo green open access." Objections: authorsalliance.org/2025/07/18/an-update-nih-and-publisher-guidance-what-authors-need-to-know-about-nihs-public-access-policy/ , libraries.mit.edu/news/ivy-plus-libraries-on-the-article-development-charge-proposed-by-the-american-chemical-society/38377/ and coalition-s.org/blog/american-chemical-society-acs-and-authors-rights-retention/
Hybrid Journal: A type of journal in which some articles are published Open Access and others articles or not. Hybrid journals are typically longstanding journals that provide an Open Access option, and charge subscription fees.
Toll access or subscription-based journal: A journal that requires payment to access the scholarly content.
Gold Open Access: Publishing in an Open Access journal.
Green Open Access: Also known as self -archiving, Green OA refers to making scholarship and research freely available to the public in an institutional or disciplinary repository.
Preprint: In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available for free, before or after a paper is published in a journal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint
Postprint/Authors' Accepted Manuscript (AAM): The draft of a research journal article after it has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, but before it has been typeset and formatted by the journal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postprint
Version of Record (VoR): The peer reviewed, edited, formatted and typeset version of the article, including any tagging, indexing and other enhancements published by the publisher, including any post publication corrections or enhancements and any other changes made by the publisher.
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