<p>Conferences with proceedings published in the <a href="http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LIPIcs</a> series:</p>

<ul>
<li>STACS</li>
<li>FSTTCS</li>
<li>CCC (since 2015)</li>
<li>TQC (Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography)</li>
<li>ICALP</li>
<li>APPROX/RANDOM</li>
<li>SoCG</li>
<li>SWAT</li>
<li>ESA</li>
<li>MFCS</li>
</ul>

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2011-12-16T23:51:48.783Z
2019-09-20T08:45:31.330Z
2019-09-20T08:45:31.330Z
Jukka Suomela
<p>Perhaps you should also ask that the journal not charge authors exorbitant fees to publish?</p>

<p>The <a href="http://jgaa.info/">Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications</a> and the <a href="http://jocg.org/index.php/jocg">Journal of Computational Geometry</a> are free in both senses.</p>

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2011-12-16T23:53:34.823Z
2011-12-16T23:53:34.823Z
David Eppstein
<p><a href="http://cjtcs.cs.uchicago.edu/">The Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science</a>.</p>

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2011-12-17T13:27:27.910Z
2011-12-17T13:27:27.910Z
Hermann Gruber
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colt2012/" rel="noreferrer">Conference on Learning Theory (COLT)</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/" rel="noreferrer">Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)</a></li>
</ul>

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2011-12-19T09:33:12.767Z
Can you provide some links?
Dave Clarke
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2011-12-17T21:36:29.100Z
2011-12-19T20:47:31.240Z
2011-12-19T20:47:31.240Z
Varun Kanade
<p>Papers on Graph Theory are also appearing on <a href="http://amc.imfm.si/index.php/amc" rel="nofollow noreferrer"> Ars Mathematica Contemporanea </a>, which is indexed by SCI. </p>

<p>The journal <a href="https://dmtcs.episciences.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"> Discrete Mathematics &amp; Theoretical Computer Science </a> is also open and indexed by SCI.</p>

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2011-12-18T10:18:02.157Z
2018-04-10T16:38:03.087Z
2018-04-10T16:38:03.087Z
someone
<p>The Directory of Open Access Journals has a <a href="https://doaj.org/search?source=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22filtered%22%3A%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22term%22%3A%7B%22index.classification.exact%22%3A%22Electronic%20computers.%20Computer%20science%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22term%22%3A%7B%22_type%22%3A%22journal%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%2C%22query%22%3A%7B%22match_all%22%3A%7B%7D%7D%7D%7D%2C%22from%22%3A0%2C%22size%22%3A10%7D" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Computer Science</a> category</p>

<p>Though it lists some of the journals already mentioned, I thought I'd share the link since it's an interesting resource.  Listings indicate whether there is a publication fee.</p>

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2017-04-19T17:50:03.447Z
As an addendum to my previous answer, it might be worth checking out the list of [open access computer science journals available via SpringerOpen](https://www.springeropen.com/journals#Computer%20Science).
Marcus Barnes
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2011-12-20T17:54:00.510Z
2017-04-11T08:34:07.240Z
2017-04-11T08:34:07.240Z
Marcus Barnes
<p><strong><a href="https://theoretics.episciences.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TheoretiCS</a></strong> was launched in late 2021 as an open-access journal covering all areas of theoretical CS. It is a diamond open-access journal (submitting and reading papers is free), and the papers are hosted on arXiv.</p>
<p>(Disclaimer: I was previously involved in running TheoretiCS as managing editor.)</p>
<p>There are also other reputable open-access journals of this kind, e.g., <a href="https://lmcs.episciences.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LMCS</a>.</p>

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2024-04-30T08:17:12.253Z
2024-04-30T08:17:12.253Z
Antoine Amarilli 'a3nm'
<p><a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/">The Journal of Integer Sequences</a>.</p>

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2011-12-17T17:30:59.710Z
2011-12-17T17:30:59.710Z
Anthony Labarre
<p><a href="http://www.jucs.org/">Journal of Universal Computer Science</a>, it is on the SCI index.</p>

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2011-12-18T08:10:10.047Z
2011-12-18T08:10:10.047Z
Andrej Bauer
<p><a href="http://www.jair.org" rel="noreferrer">Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research</a> publishes work that (at least from 10000 feet) includes theoretical computer science, graph theory, and combinatorial optimization. </p>

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2017-07-18T12:35:09.633Z
Note that JAIR requires authors to sign an exclusive copyright transfer form http://www.jair.org/copyright.pdf and that their license for online articles includes some strange restrictions http://www.jair.org/license.html that makes it incompatible with truly open licenses like CC-BY.
Antoine Amarilli 'a3nm'
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2017-07-18T16:32:32.433Z
@a3nm That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.  I'm all for remix art, but remix science is not something we need in these times.
DavidDLewis
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2017-07-18T23:30:37.347Z
Note that the license in question also disallows redistribution of verbatim copies in some cases, e.g., "Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Licessee may not publish, distribute, or sell complete volumes of JAIR in print, book, or journal form." As for remixing, there are lots of valid reasons to make derivative works of scientific articles, so I don't think it's a good idea to restrict them just because some derivative works would be undesirable.
Antoine Amarilli 'a3nm'
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2011-12-19T17:20:15.707Z
2011-12-19T17:20:15.707Z
DavidDLewis
<p><a href="http://eptcs.org">Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science</a> is an open access series publishing workshop and conference proceedings. No charges for authors and proceedings editors.</p>

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2011-12-17T11:48:51.867Z
2011-12-17T11:48:51.867Z
Hermann Gruber
<p>The <em><a href="http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Discrete Analysis Journal</a></em>, which works as a peer-reviewed overlay for arXiv, includes among <a href="http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/about" rel="nofollow noreferrer">its topics</a> "theoretical computer science" (and, for instance, <a href="http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/section/2-computational-complexity" rel="nofollow noreferrer">computational complexity</a>.</p>

<p>From <a href="http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/for-authors" rel="nofollow noreferrer">their website</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Discrete Analysis is an arXiv overlay journal. This means that while we have a conventional editorial board and refereeing process, we do not host the articles we accept or offer a formatting and copy-editing service. Instead, we simply link to preprints that are posted on the arXiv, which we believe amply meets the needs of our readers. As a result, the cost of running the journal, while not quite zero, is extremely low. Therefore, there are no charges for authors (and obviously none for readers, since the accepted papers are on the arXiv).</p>
</blockquote>

<p>One issue appears to be that it does not mint DOIs (?).</p>

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2024-04-29T17:23:16.953Z
They do mint DOIs now (and have for some time, though maybe when they first started they were some issues with this)?
Joshua Grochow
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2017-07-20T17:43:21.560Z
2017-07-20T18:20:31.210Z
2017-07-20T18:20:31.210Z
Clement C.
<p>The journal <a href="https://fi.episciences.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fundamenta Informaticae</a> moved to a full open access model a couple of yours ago. It is an arXiv overlay journal (part of the episciences journal initiative) and completely free for authors and readers.</p>

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2024-04-30T08:07:42.460Z
2024-04-30T08:07:42.460Z
Christian Komusiewicz
<p>The <a href="http://icdt.tu-dortmund.de/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">International Conference on Database Theory</a> (ICDT) publishes its proceedings in the <a href="http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LIPIcs</a> series. It is essentially the European-based database theory conference, with PODS (not open-access) being the American-based one.</p>

<p>There is a more detailed list of open-access venues in data management research and other neighboring areas on <a href="http://pierre.senellart.com/travaux/open-access/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this page</a>. (Disclaimer: I was involved in setting up the page.)</p>

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2017-07-19T10:44:50.557Z
2017-07-19T10:44:50.557Z
Antoine Amarilli 'a3nm'
<p>To stir the pot a bit, I will add <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms" rel="nofollow">Algorithms</a>.  Publication fees are ~$300.  Some of the papers seem to have ridiculously short turnaround times, but there are some people on the Editorial Board that I know and some people that I respect.</p>

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2024-04-29T15:08:38.563Z
Algorithms is an MDPI journal, and prospective authors should know there is considerable controversy about MDPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Evaluation_and_controversies -- even though they might well be reasonable people on the board of some venues.
Antoine Amarilli 'a3nm'
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2012-05-31T14:45:04.503Z
2012-05-31T14:45:04.503Z
Pat Morin
<p>Although this doesn't seem to be widely advertised, <strike>and it's not clear to me whether or not SIAM policy makes these open access forever [can someone clarify?]</strike>, many of the SIAM conferences currently have freely available official proceedings:</p>

<ul>
<li><p><a href="http://epubs.siam.org/action/showPublications?catType=proceedings&amp;category=10.1555/category.40105908&amp;expand=10.1555/category.40105908" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SODA</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://epubs.siam.org/action/showPublications?catType=proceedings&amp;category=10.1555/category.40105910&amp;expand=10.1555/category.40105910" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ALENEX</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://epubs.siam.org/action/showPublications?catType=proceedings&amp;category=10.1555/category.40105911&amp;expand=10.1555/category.40105911" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ANALCO</a></p></li>
</ul>

<p>UPDATE: a3nm contacted SIAM directly about the SODA proceedings, and they said they did not guarantee open access in perpetuity :(. But least they are OA for now!</p>

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2017-07-18T12:01:03.380Z
I have emailed SIAM about the SODA proceedings, asking whether they would be officially available in OA or not. The answer was "We cannot guarantee that the proceedings will open access in perpetuity." In addition, authors still have to sign an exclusive copyright transfer form. For these two reasons, I wouldn't count these conferences as open access.
Antoine Amarilli 'a3nm'
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2017-07-19T15:38:43.550Z
@a3nm: Thanks for checking. Bummer! I agree with your assessment, but at least they are OA for now...
Joshua Grochow
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2017-07-19T21:37:19.667Z
Yes they are, but from their answer, I'm not sure that they are even doing it on purpose. :) I wouldn't count on it.
Antoine Amarilli 'a3nm'
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2017-07-19T15:40:22.483Z
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Joshua Grochow
<p>Springer's <em>International Journal of Parallel Programming</em> offers authors the option to publish openly. They offer <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/0885-7458/preprint/" rel="nofollow">online first</a> and <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/0885-7458/open/" rel="nofollow">open access</a> articles, both with feeds available.</p>

<p>(I guess they have other journals with the same, but I have not checked.)</p>

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2011-12-18T00:08:00.043Z
"Online first" does *not* mean open access; those articles are still behind the paywall (unless they happen to be open access articles).
Jukka Suomela
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2011-12-18T00:09:40.950Z
And yes, all Springer journals offer the option to publish openly. However, it means that you will have to pay **[2000 EUR](http://www.springer.com/open+access/open+choice?SGWID=0-40359-12-683307-0)** (or 3000 USD) for each article!
Jukka Suomela
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2011-12-18T20:54:43.617Z
Did not know that, sorry. In that case, this is certainly not a valid answer to the question. I will leave it on as a bad example and a reminder that Springer is, indeed, "evil".
Raphael
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2011-12-20T15:37:58.743Z
2000 EUR? I'm speechless.
Anthony Labarre
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2012-01-14T01:01:01.443Z
Outside of academia, publishers who charge their authors for the privilege of being published are known as [vanity presses](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press).
David Eppstein
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2012-01-14T14:14:17.167Z
Inside of academia, publishers who charge their authors for the privilege of being published are _also_ known as vanity presses.
Jeffε
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2012-01-30T02:28:56.560Z
@JɛﬀE I'm sure PLOS will be surprised to hear that. *Nearly all* open access journals have authorship fees. For example: "For PLoS Computational Biology the publication fee is US$2250." http://www.ploscompbiol.org/static/guidelines.action#publicationcharges
Fomite
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2012-01-30T02:35:56.223Z
"Nearly all open access journals" should read "Nearly all open access journals in my field"...
Fomite
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2017-04-11T14:36:33.063Z
@Jeffε: Just to clarify, I thought "vanity press" meant *anyone willing to pay* could get published. Though I find large pub fees abhorrent, I don't believe PLoS, Springer, etc. qualify as vanity presses under that definition. Rather, you go through peer review, and if you get accepted, then you may have to pay a publication fee (depending on publisher, journal, etc.). In TCS, my understanding is that many journals only have a fee for open access. From friends in biology I learned that many of their journals have fees just to publish, regardless of whether you want open access or not.
Joshua Grochow
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Raphael
<p>With the advent of internet (and common sense) there is more and more demand for open-access research. Several researchers (including me) find it frustrating that published peer-reviewed research articles are behind paywalls. I am looking for journals and conferences (related to theoretical computer science, graph theory, combinatorics, combinatorial optimization) that make all accepted publications freely available to everyone.</p>

<p>Some such journals are <a href="http://theoryofcomputing.org/" rel="noreferrer">Theory of Computing</a>, <a href="http://www.combinatorics.org/" rel="noreferrer">The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics</a>, <a href="https://lmcs.episciences.org/" rel="noreferrer">Logical Methods in Computer Science</a></p>

<p>If you know more such journals (or) conferences, please mention them in your answers.</p>

<p>EDIT : As suggested by David Eppstein in his answer, I am adding one more constraint. Please write only those journals/conferences that do not charge authors exorbitant fees to publish.</p>

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2011-12-18T08:11:13.910Z
It would be useful if each answer indicated whether the journals are on the SCI index. That's important for many people in Europe.
Andrej Bauer
<soft-question><conferences><journals>
Open access journals
Shiva Kintali
# Open access journals

(Asked by: username_0 on 2011-12-16)

With the advent of internet (and common sense) there is more and more demand for open-access research. Several researchers (including me) find it frustrating that published peer-reviewed research articles are behind paywalls. I am looking for journals and conferences (related to theoretical computer science, graph theory, combinatorics, combinatorial optimization) that make all accepted publications freely available to everyone.

Some such journals are [Theory of Computing](http://theoryofcomputing.org/), [The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics](http://www.combinatorics.org/), [Logical Methods in Computer Science](https://lmcs.episciences.org/)

If you know more such journals (or) conferences, please mention them in your answers.

EDIT : As suggested by username_3 in his answer, I am adding one more constraint. Please write only those journals/conferences that do not charge authors exorbitant fees to publish.

**Tags:** soft-question, conferences, journals

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: It would be useful if each answer indicated whether the journals are on the SCI index. That's important for many people in Europe.  

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## 17 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2011-12-16. Score: 24

Conferences with proceedings published in the [LIPIcs](http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/) series:

* STACS
* FSTTCS
* CCC (since 2015)
* TQC (Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography)
* ICALP
* APPROX/RANDOM
* SoCG
* SWAT
* ESA
* MFCS


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### Answer by username_3 on 2011-12-16. Score: 19

Perhaps you should also ask that the journal not charge authors exorbitant fees to publish?

The [Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications](http://jgaa.info/) and the [Journal of Computational Geometry](http://jocg.org/index.php/jocg) are free in both senses.


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### Answer by username_4 on 2011-12-17. Score: 13

[The Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science](http://cjtcs.cs.uchicago.edu/).


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### Answer by username_5 on 2011-12-17. Score: 10

* [Conference on Learning Theory (COLT)](http://www.ttic.edu/colt2012/)
* [Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)](http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/)

> **Comments:**
> **username_6**: Can you provide some links?  

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### Answer by username_7 on 2011-12-18. Score: 9

Papers on Graph Theory are also appearing on  [Ars Mathematica Contemporanea](http://amc.imfm.si/index.php/amc) , which is indexed by SCI.

The journal  [Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science](https://dmtcs.episciences.org/)  is also open and indexed by SCI.


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### Answer by username_8 on 2011-12-20. Score: 8

The Directory of Open Access Journals has a [Computer Science](https://doaj.org/search?source=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22filtered%22%3A%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22term%22%3A%7B%22index.classification.exact%22%3A%22Electronic%20computers.%20Computer%20science%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22term%22%3A%7B%22_type%22%3A%22journal%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%2C%22query%22%3A%7B%22match_all%22%3A%7B%7D%7D%7D%7D%2C%22from%22%3A0%2C%22size%22%3A10%7D) category

Though it lists some of the journals already mentioned, I thought I'd share the link since it's an interesting resource. Listings indicate whether there is a publication fee.

> **Comments:**
> **username_8**: As an addendum to my previous answer, it might be worth checking out the list of [open access computer science journals available via SpringerOpen](https://www.springeropen.com/journals#Computer%20Science).  

---

### Answer by username_9 on 2024-04-29. Score: 7

**[TheoretiCS](https://theoretics.episciences.org)** was launched in late 2021 as an open-access journal covering all areas of theoretical CS. It is a diamond open-access journal (submitting and reading papers is free), and the papers are hosted on arXiv.

(Disclaimer: I was previously involved in running TheoretiCS as managing editor.)

There are also other reputable open-access journals of this kind, e.g., [LMCS](https://lmcs.episciences.org/).


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### Answer by username_10 on 2011-12-17. Score: 6

[The Journal of Integer Sequences](http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/).


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### Answer by username_1 on 2011-12-18. Score: 5

[Journal of Universal Computer Science](http://www.jucs.org/), it is on the SCI index.


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### Answer by username_11 on 2011-12-19. Score: 5

[Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research](http://www.jair.org) publishes work that (at least from 10000 feet) includes theoretical computer science, graph theory, and combinatorial optimization.

> **Comments:**
> **username_9**: Note that JAIR requires authors to sign an exclusive copyright transfer form http://www.jair.org/copyright.pdf and that their license for online articles includes some strange restrictions http://www.jair.org/license.html that makes it incompatible with truly open licenses like CC-BY.  
> **username_11**: @a3nm That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.  I'm all for remix art, but remix science is not something we need in these times.  
> **username_9**: Note that the license in question also disallows redistribution of verbatim copies in some cases, e.g., "Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Licessee may not publish, distribute, or sell complete volumes of JAIR in print, book, or journal form." As for remixing, there are lots of valid reasons to make derivative works of scientific articles, so I don't think it's a good idea to restrict them just because some derivative works would be undesirable.  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2011-12-17. Score: 5

[Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science](http://eptcs.org) is an open access series publishing workshop and conference proceedings. No charges for authors and proceedings editors.


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### Answer by username_12 on 2017-07-20. Score: 4

The *[Discrete Analysis Journal](http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/)*, which works as a peer-reviewed overlay for arXiv, includes among [its topics](http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/about) "theoretical computer science" (and, for instance, [computational complexity](http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/section/2-computational-complexity).

From [their website](http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/for-authors):

> Discrete Analysis is an arXiv overlay journal. This means that while we have a conventional editorial board and refereeing process, we do not host the articles we accept or offer a formatting and copy-editing service. Instead, we simply link to preprints that are posted on the arXiv, which we believe amply meets the needs of our readers. As a result, the cost of running the journal, while not quite zero, is extremely low. Therefore, there are no charges for authors (and obviously none for readers, since the accepted papers are on the arXiv).

One issue appears to be that it does not mint DOIs (?).

> **Comments:**
> **username_13**: They do mint DOIs now (and have for some time, though maybe when they first started they were some issues with this)?  

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### Answer by username_14 on 2024-04-30. Score: 2

The journal [Fundamenta Informaticae](https://fi.episciences.org/) moved to a full open access model a couple of yours ago. It is an arXiv overlay journal (part of the episciences journal initiative) and completely free for authors and readers.


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### Answer by username_9 on 2016-04-17. Score: 2

The [International Conference on Database Theory](http://icdt.tu-dortmund.de/) (ICDT) publishes its proceedings in the [LIPIcs](http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/) series. It is essentially the European-based database theory conference, with PODS (not open-access) being the American-based one.

There is a more detailed list of open-access venues in data management research and other neighboring areas on [this page](http://pierre.senellart.com/travaux/open-access/). (Disclaimer: I was involved in setting up the page.)


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### Answer by username_15 on 2012-05-31. Score: 1

To stir the pot a bit, I will add [Algorithms](http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms). Publication fees are ~$300. Some of the papers seem to have ridiculously short turnaround times, but there are some people on the Editorial Board that I know and some people that I respect.

> **Comments:**
> **username_9**: Algorithms is an MDPI journal, and prospective authors should know there is considerable controversy about MDPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Evaluation_and_controversies -- even though they might well be reasonable people on the board of some venues.  

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### Answer by username_13 on 2017-04-11. Score: 1

Although this doesn't seem to be widely advertised, and it's not clear to me whether or not SIAM policy makes these open access forever [can username_7 clarify?], many of the SIAM conferences currently have freely available official proceedings:

* [SODA](http://epubs.siam.org/action/showPublications?catType=proceedings&category=10.1555/category.40105908&expand=10.1555/category.40105908)
* [ALENEX](http://epubs.siam.org/action/showPublications?catType=proceedings&category=10.1555/category.40105910&expand=10.1555/category.40105910)
* [ANALCO](http://epubs.siam.org/action/showPublications?catType=proceedings&category=10.1555/category.40105911&expand=10.1555/category.40105911)

UPDATE: a3nm contacted SIAM directly about the SODA proceedings, and they said they did not guarantee open access in perpetuity :(. But least they are OA for now!

> **Comments:**
> **username_9**: I have emailed SIAM about the SODA proceedings, asking whether they would be officially available in OA or not. The answer was "We cannot guarantee that the proceedings will open access in perpetuity." In addition, authors still have to sign an exclusive copyright transfer form. For these two reasons, I wouldn't count these conferences as open access.  
> **username_13**: @a3nm: Thanks for checking. Bummer! I agree with your assessment, but at least they are OA for now...  
> **username_9**: Yes they are, but from their answer, I'm not sure that they are even doing it on purpose. :) I wouldn't count on it.  

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### Answer by username_16 on 2011-12-18. Score: -6

Springer's *International Journal of Parallel Programming* offers authors the option to publish openly. They offer [online first](http://www.springerlink.com/content/0885-7458/preprint/) and [open access](http://www.springerlink.com/content/0885-7458/open/) articles, both with feeds available.

(I guess they have other journals with the same, but I have not checked.)

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: "Online first" does *not* mean open access; those articles are still behind the paywall (unless they happen to be open access articles).  
> **username_2**: And yes, all Springer journals offer the option to publish openly. However, it means that you will have to pay **[2000 EUR](http://www.springer.com/open+access/open+choice?SGWID=0-40359-12-683307-0)** (or 3000 USD) for each article!  
> **username_16**: Did not know that, sorry. In that case, this is certainly not a valid answer to the question. I will leave it on as a bad example and a reminder that Springer is, indeed, "evil".  
> **username_10**: 2000 EUR? I'm speechless.  
> **username_3**: Outside of academia, publishers who charge their authors for the privilege of being published are known as [vanity presses](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press).  
> **username_17**: Inside of academia, publishers who charge their authors for the privilege of being published are _also_ known as vanity presses.  
> **username_18**: @JɛﬀE I'm sure PLOS will be surprised to hear that. *Nearly all* open access journals have authorship fees. For example: "For PLoS Computational Biology the publication fee is US$2250." http://www.ploscompbiol.org/static/guidelines.action#publicationcharges  
> **username_18**: "Nearly all open access journals" should read "Nearly all open access journals in my field"...  
> **username_13**: @username_17: Just to clarify, I thought "vanity press" meant *anyone willing to pay* could get published. Though I find large pub fees abhorrent, I don't believe PLoS, Springer, etc. qualify as vanity presses under that definition. Rather, you go through peer review, and if you get accepted, then you may have to pay a publication fee (depending on publisher, journal, etc.). In TCS, my understanding is that many journals only have a fee for open access. From friends in biology I learned that many of their journals have fees just to publish, regardless of whether you want open access or not.  

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