Where to find the answers to the following questions.
Note: off campus users will be prompted to log in with their myStevens username/password to use Library databases.
What journals are there in my field?
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Journal Citation Reports What journals are most influential (at least by one measure) in your field? Also a good source to find journals that publish in your field by region and subtopic.
What journals allow for double-anonymous peer review/offer open access options/have low acceptance rates?
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Cabells Journalytics A database of information about journals, including region, submission requirements, peer review, open access, altmetrics, and more.
What journals publish research similar to mine? What journals publish the work of people I admire?
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Scopus Analyze journal citations to find journals you'd want to publish your own work in.
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Web of Science Use Web of Science to find journals that publish the same kind of research you're doing.
How can I find journals that publish open access articles (free to read without a subscription)?
Articles can be published or made available open access (OA) in three main ways:
- A hybrid journal that publishes traditionally but also offers OA options;
- A fully OA journal; or,
- Uploading some version of your published article in an OA repository.
Publishers sometimes require that authors pay an "article processing charge" (APC) to publish their articles OA, but this is far from universal. The Directory of Open Access Journals indexes OA journals that pass a set of rigorous criteria, and allow you to search for journals in your field and find more information about their OA practices.
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Directory of Open Access Journals Search the DOAJ to find OA journals in your field. For more information on whether a journal charges a fee to publish, narrow your search to "Journals", and then use the "Article Processing Charges" option to choose Yes or No.
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SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher Copyright & Self-Archiving Policies
Information about publishers' open access policies, including their copyright agreements and what those agreements allow authors to do.
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Open Journal Matcher
Created by a City University of New York faculty member, the Open Journal Matcher "compares the similarity of user-submitted abstracts with abstracts from the Directory of Open Access Journals, and provides a list of the 5 top matching journals." Use this to find new journals of interest or one to which you can submit your own work.
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Journal Checker Tool (cOAlition S)
The Journal Checker Tool from cOAlition S (a European partnership of scientific research organizations to enact Plan S, in furtherance of open access publishing) helps authors see if their publication plans (journal, funder, institution) are compliant with Plan S's open access requirements.
How can I determine if a publisher is credible?
Journal and Publisher Whitelists
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Cabells Journalytics The Cabells Journalytics journal directory provides information about journals currently published in the fields of accounting, computer science, economics & finance, management, and marketing to help those looking to publish their work figure out where and how to do so. The Cabells Journalytics record for each journal includes contact information, citation and altmetric data, and information on the journal's submission process and peer review practices.
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Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a directory of journals that publish articles open access (available to read without a subscription), and a database of the articles published in those journals. Journal publishers must be members of the DOAJ in order to be listed, which ensures that the journals in the DOAJ follow ethical publishing practices. Subjects covered in the DOAJ include science, technology, medicine, social science and the humanities.
Credibility Assessment Tools
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"Think. Check. Submit." Journal Credibility Checker
"Think. Check. Submit." is a a cross-industry initiative led by representatives from several international open access publishing organizations and provides authors with a means of checking the credibility of journals to help them decide where to publish and avoid predatory publishers.
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Be iNFORMEd: Checklist (Duke)
A checklist from the Duke University Medical Center Library and Archives to help authors identify predatory practices in publishers when deciding where to publish.
