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The current study uses information gathered from DOAJ to analyse open access journals in the subject of mechanical engineering. It draws attention to many aspects of open access publishing, such as licencing, financing mechanism, publisher, language, and country of publication. In the area of mechanical engineering, DOAJ has registered 301 open access journals that are published by scholarly institutions, various organisations, diverse societies, well-known research centres, and commercial publishers. According to the report, eminent publishers have participated in the open access publication of journals from 44 different nations worldwide. The UK leads the list, followed by Switzerland and Indonesia, in that order. The mechanical engineering publications are published in fifteen languages, the most preferred being English. Normal peer review procedures are used by DOAJ. In the case of mechanical engineering journals, it has been discovered that anonymous peer review and double anonymous peer review are used because they assure a fair and accurate assessment of the publications. About 91.03 percent of the open access journals in mechanical engineering are not marked with the DOAJ seal and a few journals are marked with the DOAJ seal.