View source for Early OA journals

[[File:oad2.jpeg|60px]] This list is part of the [http://oad.simmons.edu Open Access Directory].

* This is a list of early peer-reviewed, open-access journals.  For the purpose of this list, "early" means launched in or before 1993. 

* If articles are available that describe the journal, please list them under the journal entry.

* Chronological order by launch year, if this can be determined, or by the year the first issue was published. Alphabetical within each year.

* Related lists in OAD:  [[Timeline|Timeline of the open access movement]].

[[Category:Lists about journals]] [[Category:History of OA]]

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== Early OA journals in general ==

* Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "[http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/ital11n1.htm Network-Based Electronic Serials]." ''Information Technology and Libraries'' 11 (March 1992): 29-35. 

* Crawford, Walt. "[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2002/00000015/00000002/art00007  Free Electronic Refereed Journals: Getting Past the Arc of Enthusiasm]." ''Learned Publishing'' 15, no. 2 (2002): 117-123.

* Jul, Erik. "Present at the Beginning." ''Computers in Libraries'' 12 (April 1992): 44-45.

* Okerson, Ann. "Publishing through the Network: The 1990s Debutante." ''Scholarly Publishing'' 23 (April 1992): 170-177.

==1987==

* [http://education.fiu.edu/newhorizons/ ''New Horizons in Adult Education''] (1987-present), current publisher: Graduate Program in the College of Education at Florida International University, Miami, Florida; initial publisher: Syracuse University Kellogg Project
** Hugo, Jane, and Linda Newell. "[http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/hugo.2n1 ''New Horizons in Adult Education'': The First Five Years (1987-1991)]." ''The Public-Access Computer Systems Review'' 2, no. 1 (1991): 77-90.

==1989==

* [http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy ''Psycoloquy''] (1989-2002), publisher: Stevan Harnad, Princeton University, sponsored by the American Psychological Association Science Directorate
** Harnad, Stevan. "[http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/harnad.2n1  Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge]." ''The Public-Access Computer Systems Review'' 2, no. 1 (1991): 39-53.

* [http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/pacsrev.html ''The Public-Access Computer Systems Review''] (1989-2000), publisher: University of Houston Libraries 
** Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "[http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/2eserial.pdf Electronic (Online) Publishing in Action . . . ''The Public-Access Computer Systems Review'' and Other Electronic Serials]." ''ONLINE'' 15 (January 1991): 28-35. 
** Ensor, Pat, and Thomas Wilson. "[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0003.106  Public-Access Computer Systems Review: Testing the Promise]." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 3, no. 1 (1997).
** Moothart, Tom. "Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: Editor, Publisher, Innovator." ''Serials Review'' 23, no. 1 (1997): 59-62.

==1990==

* [http://www.cios.org/www/ejcrec2.htm ''Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue &Egrave;lectronique de Communication''] (1990-present), publisher: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship/Comserve
** Harrison, Teresa M., and Timothy D. Stephen. "[http://hdl.handle.net/2142/7985  The Electronic Journal as the Heart of an Online Scholarly Community]." ''Library Trends'' 43 (Spring 1995): 592-608.
** Harrison, Teresa M., Timothy Stephen, and James Winter. "[http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/harrison.2n1 Online Journals: Disciplinary Designs for Electronic Scholarship]." ''The Public-Access Computer Systems Review'' 2, no. 1 (1991): 25-38. 

* [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/ ''Postmodern Culture''] (1990-present), initial publisher: Eyal Amiran, Greg Dawes, Elaine Orr, and John Unsworth, North Carolina State University; second publisher: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia; current publisher: Project Muse (No longer open access; however [http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/back-contents.html text-only version] is still freely available through volume 17.)
** Amiran, Eyal, and John Unsworth. "[http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/amiran.2n1 Postmodern Culture: Publishing in the Electronic Medium]." ''The Public-Access Computer Systems Review'' 2, no. 1 (1991): 67-76. 

* [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~copyrght/image/solstice.html ''Solstice:  An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics''] (1990-present), publisher: Institute of Mathematical Geography, University of Michigan

==1991==

* [http://www.ucalgary.ca/ejournal/ ''EJournal''] (1991-2004), last publisher: Learning Commons and the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary; initial publisher: Ted Jennings, University at Albany
** Jennings, Edward M. "[http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/jennings.2n1 ''EJournal'': An Account of the First Two Years]." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2, no. 1 (1991): 91-110. 

* [http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/ ''Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship''] (1991-present), publisher: Science and Technology Section, Association of College & Research Libraries 

* [http://libres.curtin.edu.au/ ''LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal''] (1991-present), current publisher: Department of Information Studies, Curtin University of Technology

* [http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/home.html Surfaces] (1991-1997). Director: Jean-Claude Guédon; publisher: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

==1992==

* [http://corbu2.caed.kent.edu/architronic/ ''Architronic''] (1992-1999), publisher: School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
** Robison, Elwin C. "[http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n3/robi7n3.html Architecture, Graphics, and the Net: A Short History of ''Architronic'', a Peer-Reviewed E-Journal]." ''The Public-Access Computer Systems Review'' 7, no. 3 (1996): 5-12. 

==1993==

* ''The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture'' (1993-1996), publisher: Ermel Stepp and Diane Kovacs, Kent State University  (See [http://serials.infomotions.com/aejvc/ Infomotions Archive] for issues)

* [http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/home ''CTHEORY''] (1993-present), supported by University of Victoria

* [http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/ ''Education Policy Analysis Archives''] (1993-present), initial publisher: Gene V. Glass, College of Education, Arizona State University; current publsher: Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, Arizona State University and the College of Education, University of South Florida

* [https://elaw.murdoch.edu.au/v1/index.html ''eLaw Journal'']  (1993-present), current publisher: School of Law, Murdoch University

* [http://ejap.louisiana.edu/ ''The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy''] (1993-present), current publisher: Istvan S. N. Berkeley, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; initial publisher: Analytic Philosophy Project, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington

* [http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/ ''Electronic Journal of Differential Equations''] (1993-present), current publisher: Department of Mathematics, Texas State University-San Marcos 

* [http://etna.mcs.kent.edu/ ''Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis''] (1993-present), current publisher: Kent State University Library and the Institute of Computational Mathematics, Kent State University

* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/index.shtml ''Federal Communications Law Journal''] (1993-present), publisher: Indiana University School Of Law, Bloomington and the Federal Communications Bar Association

* [http://www.jair.org/ ''Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research''] (1993-present), AI Access Foundation, Inc.

* [http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/ ''Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture'']  (1993-present), School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany

* [http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/ ''Journal of Statistics Education''] (1993-present), current publisher: American Statistical Association

* [http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/ ''Journal of Technology Education''] (1989-present), publisher: Council of Technology Teacher Education, the International Technology Education Association, and the Virginia Tech Libraries

* [http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/ ''MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship''] (1993-2002), Lori Widzinski, University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library, and Terrence McCormack, University at Buffalo Law Library 
** Widzinski, Lori J. "The Evolution of ''MC Journal'': A Case Study in Producing a Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journal." ''Serials Review '' 23, no. 2 (1997): 59-72.
** ---. "[http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/ariadne/issue5/academic-media/ ''MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship'']." ''Ariadne'', no. 5 (1996). 

* [http://mto.societymusictheory.org/ ''Music Theory Online''] (1993-present),  Society for Music Theory, Inc.