Music: Open Access Journals

A peer-reviewed journal (following the “blind review” protocol) seriously committed to principles of open access.

Critical Studies in Improvisation is an open-access, peer-reviewed, electronic, academic journal on improvisation, community, and social practice housed at the University of Guelph.

Dancecult is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture

This journal aims to provide an international forum promoting the understanding of music in all of its facets. In particular, EMR aims to facilitate communication and debate between scholars engaged in systematic and observation-based music scholarship.

This journal presents short peer-reviewed essays on the subject of student-centered learning.

This is an interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of all basic and applied aspects of speech communication and audio processes.

Gamut is the peer-reviewed online journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic. This journal is focused on criticism, commentary, research, and scholarship

This peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the dissemination of scholarship regarding the teaching and learning of music theory.

A journal focused on women in music. Strangely, you'll need to scroll down to the bottom of the page for the most recent edition.

usic and Arts in Action (MAiA) emerges from international, cross-disciplinary work that takes a wider, holistic approach in researching the dynamic role of music and the arts in social life and cultural experience.

Music Theory Online is a journal of criticism, commentary, research and scholarship in music theory, music analysis, and related disciplines.

The principal aim of this journal is primarily to promote and present contemporary music created both of Serbia and abroad, as well as a discourse in this domain – from the musicological, ethnomusicological, analytical, philosophical, aesthetic, including media studies, cultural studies, etc.

Nota Bene is a journal of musicology that publishes articles written by undergraduate students around the world. All submissions are double-blind reviewed by a panel of professors from across Canada.

Research and Issues in Music Education (RIME) is a privately funded international on-line music education research journal that advances scholarly thought by publishing articles promoting research, dialogue, practice, and policy in music education.

This is a peer-reviewed online journal that brings together a plurality of theories, methodologies, and historical approaches applicable to sound as both mediated and unmediated experience.