Journal of Open Hardware

About the Journal

The Journal of Open Hardware (JOH) is a peer reviewed open access publication for open hardware research and development. The journal’s primary goal is to bridge academic fields which contribute to open practices of design, fabrication, and dissemination of research instruments as well as the multiple dynamics that shape these processes. JOH covers technical, legal, scientific, educational, economic, and sociocultural aspects of hardware. We invite submissions from various fields, such as human-machine interaction, biotechnology, engineering, physics, computer science, humanities, and social sciences, among others.

We help authors achieve best community standards of openness and preservation with our guidelines and constructive peer review by the Open Science Hardware community. We are the only journal to review hardware documentation alongside manuscripts and to ensure that projects are not only replicable, but also modifiable, allowing for virtuous circuits of exchange.

The JOH prioritizes the exchange of knowledge by creating the conditions for the study, modification, redistribution and use of hardware designs for any purpose within and beyond academia. As editors and contributors, we are committed to the principles of libre technologies, such as Free Software, open gateware, wetware, materials and hardware.

Current Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2024): Volume 8