Publishing your work Open Access allows greater visability of your work by giving everyone access to your paper regardless of whether or not they have a subscription to the journal. There are two routes to publish OA, green and gold.
Green OA allows you to publish without paying a fee but then deposit your paper in a repository (usually after a short embargo period) such as research gate or an institutional repository such as one managed by the university you may be affiliated with. To find out which journals support Green Open Access publishing, search Sherpa/Romeo by journal title.
Gold OA requires a fee to be paid, known as an Article Processing Charge (APC) where the paper is then made freely available on the publisher/journal website. You can publish Gold OA in either fully OA or hybrid journals. Fully OA journals are funded purely by APC's, hybrid journals are funded by both traditional subscriptions and APC's. To find out which journals support Gold OA publishing and how much APC's are, go to the publishers website and search Open Access.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): search scholarly journals where all the content is Open Access. https://doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): search for scholarly Open Access books covering sciences through to the humanities. https://www.doabooks.org/
OAPEN: search for Open Access books focusing on the social sciences and humanities https://www.oapen.org/
EThOS: use the British Library’s national database to find doctoral theses produced in UK universities. https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do;jsessionid=BC141C1551023892398D404ECE27A033
CORE: aggregates Open Access research from repositories and journals worldwide. https://core.ac.uk/
Open DOAR (JISC): search this directory of scholarly Open Access repositories to find publications and research by universities and public bodies including the NHS. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/opendoar
Open Access material is free to read but may not be available to copy. Please check the copyright statements on open access material to see what is permissible.
Many open access journals use Creative Commons licenses to grant permission for use of their articles under copyright law. Learn more at: https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/
These journals ‘…accept articles for publication — along with authors’ fees — without performing promised quality checks for issues such as plagiarism or ethical approval.’ Grudneiwicz (2019) Predatory journals: no definition, no defence. Nature 576, 210-212 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y
If you want to publish in an open access journal you are not familiar with this site provides a checklist to help judge the credentials of a publication. Think! Check! Submit! https://thinkchecksubmit.org/