Open Access Journals

Open Access Resources for the Study of Religion/s

Suggestions for additions are welcome.

• Open Access Journals
• Latin American Open Access Journals
• General Open Access Resources
• Institutional Repositories

Open Access Journals (* student journals)

• Approaching Religion (ISSN: 1799-3121) Finland: English
• Cahiers d’Études du Religieux – Recherches interdisciplinaires (CER-RI) France: French (ISSN 1760-5776) France
• Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (ISSN 2053-7158) UK: English
• DISKUS (British Association for the Study of Religions) (ISSN 2175-5841) UK: English
• Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies (ISSN 1084-7561) USA: English
• Hispania Sacra: Revista de Historia Eclesiástica (ISSN 1988-4265) Spain: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, French
• Ilorin Journal of Religious Studies (IJOURELS) (ISSN 2141-7040) Nigeria: English
• * Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies (ISSN 2155-1723) USA: English
• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (ISSN 0304-1042) Japan: English
• Journal of Buddhist Ethics (ISSN 1076-9005) USA: English
• Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (ISSN 1530-5228) USA: English
• The Journal of Global Buddhism (ISSN 1527-6457) USA: English
• The Journal of Gods and Monsters USA: English
• Journal of Islamic and Religious Studies (ISSN 2519-7118 [Online]) Pakistan: English, Urdu, Arabic
• Journal of the International Association for Bon Research (ISSN 2291-8663) Canada: English
• Journal of Religion & Film (ISSN 1092-1311) USA: English
• Journal of Religion and Human Relations (ISSN 2006-5442) Nigeria: English
• Journal of Religion and Society (ISSN 1522-5658) USA: English
• The Journal of Southern Religion (ISSN 1094-5253) USA: English
• Journal for the Study of Religion (ISSN 2413-3027) South Africa: English
• Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies (ISSN 1583-0039) Romania: English, Romanian
• Marburg Journal of Religion (ISSN 1612-2941) Germany: all languages
• Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies (ISSN 1759-1953) UK: English
• Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet (ISSN 1861-5813) Germany: English
• Open Library of Humanities (OLH) – general humanities, current publishing only thematic sets of articles
• Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception – book reviews in Religion and Biblical Studies (ISSN 1179-7231) New Zealand: English
• Religion and Gender (ISSN 1878-5417 ) Netherlands: English
• Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) Switzerland: English
• Revista Lusófona de Ciência das ReligiõesPortugal: Portuguese
• Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines (ISSN 1768-2959) France: French, English, Spanish, Italian
• Temenos – Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion (ISSN 2342-7256) Finland: English
• Via Spiritus: Revista de História da Espiritualidade e do Sentimento Religioso (ISSN 0873-1223-25) Portugal: Portuguese, Spanish
• Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (ISSN 1209-9392) Canada: English
• *Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft (ZjR) (ISSN 1862-5886) Germany: German, English

Latin American Open Access Journals (* student journals)

Most Latin American SoR journals are open access with no author processing charges and many accept submissions in English.

• Afro-Ásia (ISSN 1981-1411) Brazil: Portuguese (submissions welcome in English, Spanish, French but must be translated for publication)
• Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG (ISSN 1982-3053) Brazil: Portuguese, English, Spanish
• Coisas do Gênero:Revista de Estudos Feministas em Teologia e Religião (ISSN 2447-2654) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish
• Cultura y Religión: Revista de Sociedades en Transición (ISSN 0718-4727) Chile: Spanish
• Debates do NER (ISSN 1982-8136) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish
• Estudos Afro-Brasileiros (ISSN 2176-1078) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, English
• Estudos de Religião (ISSN 2176-1078) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, English
• Horizonte: Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião (ISSN 2175-5841) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, English
• Interações (ISSN 1983-2478) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, English
• Numen: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisa da Religião (ISSN 2236-6296) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, English
• Parallelus (ISSN 2178-8162) Brazil: Portuguese
• PLURA – Revista de Estudos de Religião (ISSN 2179-0019) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, English
• Religião e Sociedade (ISSN 1984-0438) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish
• Reflexão (ISSN 2447-6803) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, French
• REFLEXUS – Revista Semestral de Teologia e Ciências das Religiões (ISSN 2358-4874) Brazil: Portuguese, English
• REVER: Revista de Estudos da Religião (ISSN 1677-1222) Brazil: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German
• Revista Caminhos (ISSN 1983-778X) Brazil: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italisn, German.
• Revista Brasileira de História das Religiões (ISSN 1983-2850) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish
• Revista Ciências da Religião – História e Sociedade Brazil: Portuguese DORMANT SINCE 2018.
• Revista do Núcleo de Estudos de Religião e Sociedade (Nures) (ISSN 1981-156X) Brazil: Portuguese
• * Sacriligens (ISSN 2237-6151) Brazil: Portuguese, Spanish, English
• Sociedad y Religión (CONICET) (ISSN 1853-7081) Argentina: Spanish, Portuguese
• * Último Andar (ISSN 1980-8305) Brazil: Portuguese

General Open Access Resources

• Directory of open Access journals (DOAJ)– with a subdirectory on Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
• OAIster search (Worldcat)
• SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) – search journals from Latin America, South Africa, Spain and Portugal
• JURN – “search tool for open access content” – focussed on arts and humanities
• Online library and publication platform (OAPEN) – publishes and supports open access books, primarily arts and humanities
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) – “aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world”
• Directory of open access books in religion
• Hathi Trust – e-books
• Internet Archive – e-books and texts
• African Journals Online (AJOL) – list of open access journals
• Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• British Library (EThOS) – search PhD theses from the UK with free registration

Institutional Repositories

• Global Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
• GRAFT – “search the world’s academic repositories”
• List of National IRs at JURN
• About Institutional Repositories
• RIAN (Ireland)
• OpenAIRE (UK and Europe)
• TROVE (Australia)
• IRs in Canada (CARL) (Canada)