Open Life Sciences is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, devoted to scholarly research in all areas of life sciences:

• BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES including cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, immunology, pharmacology, neuroscience, cancer biology, bioinformatics and computational biology, case reports of rare diseases
• PLANT SCIENCES including plant anatomy and physiology, plant genetics and biotechnology
• ANIMAL SCIENCES including zoology, veterinary sciences, animals in agriculture
• ECOLOGY and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE including evolutionary biology, populations, ecosystems and landscapes, ecotoxicology, air and soil pollution and control, environmental microbiology, biomass and bioenergy, biodiversity, conservation biology, marine ecology
• AGRICULTURE including crop production, livestock and poultry breeding and nutrition
• FOOD SCIENCE and NUTRITION including Functional Food, Food Microbiology, Food Metabolomics, Food By-Products, Food Waste Management
• BIOENGINEERING and BIOTECHNOLOGY including tissue engineering, biomaterials, nanotechnology, bioreactors

The published content includes research articles, review articles, communications, case reports, commentaries, and letters to the Editor.

Open Life Sciences assures the top quality of published data through critical peer-review and editorial involvement throughout the whole publication process. Thanks to the Open Access model, it also offers unrestricted access to published articles for all users.

The journal aims to facilitate the communication and collaboration of scientists across different countries.

Why read

• The journal publishes research from all areas of the life sciences, including the most recent and significant findings
• Researchers use it to reveal data that is likely to advance the direction and the thinking of the field
• It is an international forum for the dissemination of research data across the entire spectrum of biology
• The publication is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers from different countries

Why submit

• The journal is included in the ISI Master Journal List, Science Citation Index Expanded and Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics)
• Transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review
• Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
• Free language-correction services for authors from non-English speaking regions
• Worldwide dissemination and unrestricted access to all published articles
• Promotion of each published article

Open Life Sciences is covered by the following services:

• AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library)
• Arianta
• Baidu Scholar
• Biobase
• CABI (over 50 subsections)
• Case
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) - CAplus
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) - SciFinder
• Chronos Hub
• CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
• CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
• Dimensions
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
• EBSCO (relevant databases)
• EBSCO Discovery Service
• Engineering Village
• Genamics JournalSeek
• GeoRef
• GoOA
• Google Scholar
• Index Copernicus
• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• J-Gate
• Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
• JournalGuide
• JournalTOCs
• KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
• MyScienceWork
• Naver Academic
• Naviga (Softweco)
• Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
• Pathway Studio
• POL-index
• Polish Medical Bibliography/Polish Medical Library
• Primo Central (ExLibris)
• ProQuest (relevant databases)
• Publons
• PubMed
• PubMed Central
• QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
• ReadCube
• Reaxys
• SCImago (SJR)
• SCOPUS
• Semantic Scholar
• Sherpa/RoMEO
• Summon (ProQuest)
• TDNet
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
• WanFang Data
• Web of Science - Biological Abstracts
• Web of Science - BIOSIS Previews
• Web of Science - Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences
• Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded
• Web of Science - Zoological Record
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• X-MOL
• Yewno Discover