[Update (january 2019): from now on this list will not be maintained on this blog. Please see the blog of David Roberts who manages it now.]
Since the list of mathematics open access journals over at the Directory of Open Access Journals is both incomplete and full of obscure journals, here is my subjective list of serious ones. Feel free to mention omissions (although I reserve myself the choice of possibly not adding them).
[Edit: in fact, I am mostly interested in serious ones which moreover do not charge any submission fees (so-called ‘article processing charges’ APC). So, only those will be listed (I’ll make an exception for some journals that have APC with a generous fee-waiver policy).]
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 for all authors for the first few years)
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