Some (serious) open access journals in mathematics

The following list was originally compiled by Thomas Sauvaget on his blog, Episodic Thoughts, now in stasis. He gave me permission to now host it here and update it as I see fit. If you feel that there is a respectable open access maths journal missing, preferably one that does not charge APCs, then let me know in the comments. Please search in the comments at Thomas’ post to see if it hadn’t already been suggested. I will edit this post as needed, and note that at present I haven’t gone through the list to double check all of these. I will place the checked list under an Creative Commons license at some point.

Generalist journals

Name Submission fee? Start year Publisher
Osaka Journal of Mathematics No 1964 Osaka University (& Project Euclid)
Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ Mathematica No 1974 Academia Scientiarum Fennica
Proceedings of the Japan Academy No 1977 Japan Academy (& Project Euclid)
New York Journal of Mathematics No 1994 New York State University at Albany
Documenta Mathematica No 1996 Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
New-Zealand Journal of Mathematics No 2007 University of Auckland
Münster Journal of Mathematics No 2008 Universität Münster
Confluentes Mathematici No 2009 Université de Lyon
Forum of Mathematics, Pi Yes* 2013 Cambridge University Press
Journal de l’École polytechnique No 2014 Cedram.org
North-Western European Journal of Mathematics No 2015 Université de Lille (with support from the SMF, KWG, SML and Fields Institute)
Annales de l’Institut Fourier No 2015 (+all archives) Université de Grenoble (with support from Cedram.org)
Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse No 2017 (+all archives) Université de Toulouse (with support from Cedram.org)
Annales Mathématiques Blaise Pascal No 2017 (+all archives) Université de Clermond-Ferrand (with support from Cedram.org)
Acta Mathematica No 2017 (+all archives) Institut Mittag-Leffler (with Project Euclid) & International Press
Arkiv för Matematik No 2017 (+all archives) Institut Mittag-Leffler (with Project Euclid) & International Press
Annales Henri Lebesgue No 2018 ENS Rennes

Specialized journals

Name Submission fee? Start year Publisher
PMB Algèbre et Théorie des nombres No 1974 University of Besançon
The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics No 1990 University of Queensland
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations No 1993 Texas State University at San Marcos
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics No 1994 Currently hosted at the Australian National University
Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal No 1995 Universitat de Barcelona
Theory and Applications of Categories No 1995 Mount Allison University
Electronic Journal of Probability No 1996 Institute of Mathematical Statistics & Bernoulli Society
Electronic Communications in Probability No 1996 Institute of Mathematical Statistics & Bernoulli Society
The electronic Journal of Linear Algebra No 1996 International Linear Algebra Society
Conformal Geometry and Dynamics No 1997 American Mathematical Society
Representation Theory No 1997 American Mathematical Society
Journal of Computation and Mathematics No 1998 London Mathematical Society
INTEGERS: Eletronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory No 2000 University of West Georgia & Charles University & DIMATIA
Dynamics of Partial Differential Equations No 2004 International Press of Boston
Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics No 2006 University of Auckland
Contributions to Discrete Mathematics No 2006 Universiy of Calgary
ALEA: Latin-American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics No 2006 IMPA and Instituto do Milênio
Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry No 2009 MSP
Stochastic Systems No 2011 INFORMS Applied Probability Society & Project Euclid
Forum Of Mathematics, Sigma Yes* 2013 Cambridge University Press
Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems No 2013 Università Dell’Aquila
Theory and Applications of Graphs No 2014 Georgia Southern University
Algebraic Geometry No 2014 Foundation Compositio Mathematica
SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics No 2015 Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (with support from Cedram.org)
Discrete Analysis No 2015 Scolastica
Epiga No 2016 Episciences.org
Higher Stuctures No 2016 Macquarie University
Journal de Théorie de Nombres de Bordeaux No 2017 (+all archives) Université de Bordeaux (with support from Cedram.org)

Expository journals

Name Submission fee? Start year Publisher
Bulletin of the AMS No 1891 American Mathematical Society
Probability Surveys No 2004 Institute of Mathematical Statistics & Bernoulli Society
Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences No 2011 Springer/Birkhäuser

(*: fee waiver in some cases only in the long term, but was free or all authors for the first few years)

 

10 thoughts on “Some (serious) open access journals in mathematics

  1. I guess you’re not listing J. Graph Algorithms & Applications (jgaa.info) and J. Computational Geometry (jocg.org) because you’re trying to limit it to pure math, not ones that shade over into theoretical computer science? Both are listed in MathSciNet, though, which seems like an easier criterion to use than making that kind of judgement.

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  2. Awesome to see Discrete Analysis on this list! One inaccuracy on their listing, Scholastica is not a publisher – Discrete Analysis independently publishes using the Scholastica platform.

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