Open Life Sciences is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all areas of the life sciences.

It was established in 2006 as the Central European Journal of Biology and co-published by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media.

It obtained its current title in 2014 when it was moved completely to the De Gruyter imprint, at the same time switching to full open access.

The editor-in-chief is Mariusz Ratajczak (University of Louisville).

The journals is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 0.690.