Building a sustainable future for academic journals by challenging the profit-making models of global corporate publishing and data systems.
About us.
Our vision.
The Open Journals Collective is an international collective of scholars, libraries, university presses, and non-profit academic publishers. We believe that academic research should be available to all, with no author fees and no paywalls.
Our Mission.
Our mission is to build a sustainable future for academic journals by challenging the profit-making models of global corporate publishing and data systems.
Number of journals in OJC's Launch Collections.
Percentage of target investment already raised.
Investment raised since January 2026.
Number of OJC library supporters who have joined since launch.
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"The Open Journals Collective is one of the most exciting initiatives in advancing open access that I have seen. Investors have an opportunity to support communities of scholars and publishers who have shown their commitment to expanding access to knowledge over decades of scrimping and saving. With real investment, the sky's the limit for what the authors and editors of these journals can achieve."
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"The Open Journals Collective provides a community-led, scalable opportunity for libraries to invest in trusted open access journals. DOAJ and OJC share a commitment to building an equitable and diverse scholarly publishing system, and this initiative takes an important step towards that vision."
We need to tackle our broken system of journals publishing by redesigning knowledge dissemination.
