Publish an Open Access Journal
We support you in founding a new OA journal or take over the hosting of already existing journals. As a technical platform, we use Open Journal Systems (OJS), the world's best-known software for managing and publishing scientific journals. The advantage is that you can map all steps of the publication process in OJS, from the submission of a paper, to its peer review, to its publication and subsequent indexing.
If you are interested in our service, please contact Katja Halassy, ojs@ub.uni-koeln.de, +49 221 470-6869.
Journals
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AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online
AAeO, Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online, is a peer reviewed journal publishing scholarly articles and monographs on Africa in all its geographical breadth and historical depth, taking into account the diasporas around the world as well as the reception of Africa and African affairs throughout history.
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gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies
Please note that gender forum is still in the process of moving to Open Journal Systems (hosted by USB Cologne - see https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/). We are currently designing the new layout and migrating back issues to this platform, so bear with us!
gender forum is an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. As an open access online journal, gender forum offers a platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy.
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IJRLD - International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities
IJRLD, International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, is an official publication of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities (IARLD). It is a global resource for scholars and practitioners interested in research on barriers to learning present in reading, writing, spelling, or doing mathematical calculations. The IJRLD follows an annual online-publication model. All articles within a volume are consolidated into a single issue, which is then distributed to various databases for wider dissemination. However, as soon as a manuscript is accepted and formatted, it is promptly published on this website as an online-first article.
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Anuario de Historia de América Latina
The Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/ Anuario de Historia de América Latina publishes articles on Latin American history from the colonial period to the present. It is open to different research perspectives, including regional and national history as well as comparative and transnational history. The Jahrbuch/ Anuario situates Latin America within a larger geographical framework, be that the history of both Americas, Atlantic history, global or world history.
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JNRD - Journal of Natural Resources and Development
JNRD, Journal of Natural Resources and Development, is a peer-reviewed, free of charge and open access journal that publishes articles related to natural resources management and the analysis of socio-ecological systems.
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k:ON - Kölner Online Journal für Lehrer*innenbildung
k:ON, Kölner Online Journal für Lehrer*innenbildung, ist eine halbjährlich erscheinende Fachzeitschrift, die sich allen Aspekten der Lehrer*innenbildung widmet und verschiedenste Akteur*innen aus dem Bereich der Lehrer*innenbildung adressiert, wie Expert*innen aus den (Fach-)Didaktiken und den Bildungswissenschaften, Lehrende aus der Hochschule und Schule, Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen und Studierende.
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Criminology - The Online Journal
KrimOJ, Kriminologie - Das Online-Journal | Criminology - The Online Journal, is the first open access journal in the field of criminology initiated from Germany. The three-monthly journal makes all contributions available to its readers free of charge. However, authors are not charged any costs either. The journal offers a scientific forum for all relevant disciplines. KrimOJ is designed for anyone who is interested in the academic debate surrounding issues in the field of criminology.
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mathematica didactica
mathematica didactica is a scientific and peer-reviewed open access journal for the didactics of mathematics. It contains original contributions on the teaching and learning of mathematics. Empirical studies as well as theoretical conceptualisations are published. Contributions from the whole range of academic research in this field are welcome.
Each year, both free contributions and contributions bundled under a thematic focus are published; proposals for thematic focuses by guest editors can be submitted to the permanent editors.
Until 2020, mathematica didactica was published by the Franzbecker publishing house both online first and in two printed issues per year. Since 2021, the articles in mathematica didactica have been published exclusively online in open access.
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Medien der Kontrolle | Media of Control
Medien der Kontrolle | Media of Control
Die Online-Zeitschrift Medien der Kontrolle | Media of Control stellt wissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Beobachtung und Analyse der Ausübung von Macht in, über und durch Medien zur Diskussion.
The online journal Media of Control | Medien der Kontrolle collects scholarly contributions that observe, interrogate, and discuss the exercise of power in, over, and through media.
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MiDU – Medien im Deutschunterricht
MiDU – Medien im Deutschunterricht ist das Forum für theoretisch-konzeptionelle und empirische Forschung im Bereich der germanistischen Mediendidaktik sowie für praxisorientierte Beiträge zur Entwicklung von Unterricht in diesem Bereich.
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The Mouth - Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society
The Mouth is an open-access journal devoted to the critical study of language practices and ideologies, cultural concepts and social contexts. It is transdisciplinary and not bound to a single particular form. Contributions can be written texts of varying size and genre, images, videos and other formats, in different languages.
Our Mission
We are convinced that thoughts can be expressed in multiple ways. This journal supports the openness to forms of texts and to practices of language, which we see as essential for publishing a wide variety of thoughts, expressions and concepts. We are sensitive to positionalities and to the ways in which stories are told in different ways, as well as to different forms of theorizing in various languages and societies other than the ones in which we live. Attempting to learn from others, we will continue to create a journal that allows for multiple forms of expressions and texts, which also includes podcasts and visual material that transmit knowledges in a variety of ways.
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Transformation Working Paper Series
Impulse für Forschung und gesellschaftliche Debatten: Die Transformation Working Paper Series des NEC beleuchtet zentrale Fragen gesellschaftlicher Veränderung – kritisch, praxisnah und interdisziplinär.
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Philosophische Symposien
Die Philosophischen Symposien sind ein Tagungs-Format der DFG. Die Vorträge und Diskussionen werden vom FID Philosophie gehostet.
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P&D - Philosophy & Digitality
P&D, Philosophy & Digitality, is an open access philosophy journal that is devoted to the philosophical significance of digitalization and its impact on the humanities, cultural studies, and media studies. The journal welcomes original papers on the aesthetic, ethical, political, ontological, and epistemic dimensions of digitalization. P&D follows a double-blind reviewing procedure and aims to provide the authors with helpful feedback.
P&D is being edited by Gabriele Gramelsberger (Aachen) (Editor in Chief), Sybille Krämer (Lüneburg), and Jörg Noller (Munich). Submitted papers are reviewed by an international scientific advisory board.
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Philosophy of AI
Philosophy of AI (PhAI) is the official double-blind journal of the Society for Philosophy of AI (https://phai.ac/). It is run in the spirit of the Open Access movement, promoting a system in which all dissemination of scholarly work is organized for free.
Philosophy of AI is edited by Guido Löhr (VU Amsterdam) and Vincent C. Müller (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg). We welcome submissions on philosophical topics related to AI (from ethics to theoretical philosophy) with an analytic orientation/style, broadly construed.
The journal was founded in January 2024 and published its first volume in 2025.
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Recht und Literatur
RLit ist eine interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Recht und Literatur. Herausgeberinnen und Redaktion: Prof. Dr. Anja Schiemann, Büşra Akay & Hannah Schulze Zurmussen.
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Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
All articles and notes appearing in RhM are made available online as full texts two years after publication of the print version. They can be accessed free of charge. For the legal regulations in detail, see Open Access.
Tables of contents of the print issues of the last two years can be found at ‘current issues’, those of issues in the public domain at ‘archives’.
Currently all items in volumes that were published between 1827 and 2022 are available as PDFs (in Open Access).
The digitization of volumes from the period from 1827 to 1999 was funded by the German Research Foundation
Current issues and back issues of the past two years can be accessed online by registered subscribers via J.D. Sauerländer’s Verlag or via the intranet of subscribing institutions.
If you would like to receive information about the contents of each forthcoming issue of RhM, you can sign up to periodic email alerts free of charge. You will receive a link to the table of contents of each forthcoming issue prior to publication. You can unsubscribe from these email alerts at any time. To subscribe or update your preferences, please complete the form here. We comply with the EU-General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Working Papers Cultural and Sociotechnical Studies
Working Papers Cultural and Sociotechnical Studies series is a forum for exchanging with early career researchers who have situated their seminar papers, theses or research papers within a primarily cultural and sociotechnical framework.
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ZERL - Zeitschrift für Europäische Rechtslinguistik
Since 2010, the e-Journal Zeitschrift für Europäische Rechtslinguistik (Journal of European Legal Linguistics (ZERL)) has been providing a transdisciplinary, multilingual, typological-comparative and implementation-oriented exchange between linguistics and law, combining research and teaching with professional practice in law-making, legal interpretation and application, as well as reception of law.
Particular attention is paid to multilingual European law. The journal is an up-to-date platform for research contributions, reviews and lectures in various formats.
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Zeitschrift für Kritische Musikpädagogik
Die Zeitschrift für Kritische Musikpädagogik (ZfKM) wurde 2002 von Jürgen Vogt ins Leben gerufen. Die ZfKM ist ein E-Journal, in dem ausschließlich theoretische Beiträge zur Musikpädagogik ihren Platz finden. Sie versteht sich als “kritisch” im Sinne von Kritik als Sichtung, Unterscheidung und Auswahl; nicht nur im Sinne von Kritischer Theorie.
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OPEN JOURNAL PUBLISHING
Die Beispielzeitschrift von USB OPEN PUBLICATIONS bietet Ihnen einen ersten Einblick in die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und in die Umsetzung des Redaktionsworkflows mit Open Journals Systems (OJS). Innerhalb der einzelnen Artikel erhalten Sie detaillierte Informationen zum Serviceangebot und den unterstützenden Leistungen der USB Köln. Zudem beinhaltet das Zeitschriftenprofil nützliche Informationen rund um die Herausgabe einer Open-Access-Zeitschrift — auch in Bezug auf eine mögliche Indexierung bei renommierten Verzeichnissen wie dem Web of Science (WoS) oder dem Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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Experimental Philosophy
Experimental Philosophy is an open-access journal founded to enable authors to publish work in experimental philosophy without having to compromise on either the empirical or the philosophical side. The journal welcomes submissions relevant to the field of experimental philosophy, broadly interpreted to include experimental-philosophy studies, empirically informed philosophy, and discussions of methods and empirically informed and experimental philosophy, meta-studies, and critical responses to empirical work. Submissions are expected to make a significant contribution to philosophical discourse.
Experimental Philosophy is proud to be a completely fee-free journal. We do not collect any publication or processing charges under any circumstances, including from researchers unaffiliated with universities or research institutions. This policy reflects our firm commitment to social justice, equity, and the democratization of knowledge. We seek to ensure that the ability to contribute to and access philosophical research depends solely on the quality of ideas—not on institutional privilege or financial means.
