Ask HN: Are there any academic journals that are free and provide open access?

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We're recently seeing a lot of news on this site about how Sci-Hub is causing the downfall of subscription journals. How "evil" subscription journals really are. At the moment is there a generalised alternative?

(If not, are there any HN'ers out there that would feel like creating an open source platform with me?)

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Check:

https://doaj.org/ --> Directory of Open Access Journals

For some specifics, I can think of:

http://jair.org

http://jmlr.org

http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/ (site seems to be down right now though)

The European Physical Journal (EPJ, https://www.epj.org/open-access) has been taking steps towards better Open Access services.

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