Choose journal

Choosing journal for publishing - what matters?

• Aim and scope
• Accessability - Open Access?
• Availability - indexed in databases?
• Language
• Impact
• Time for publishing
• Copyright
• Costs (readers and/or for author)
• Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines

Tips

• Search in relevant databases
  - either a general scientific database or a subject databases using focused keywords. sort records by "source" to see journals.
  Search Web of Science / Scopus
• DOAJ
  Directory of Open Access Journals.  Free, peer-reviewed OA scientific journals.
   
• OAJSE
  Search Open Access journals
   
• JURN - OA journals in arts & humanities
   
• EZB  - free OA scientific journals
   
• OA publishers:
  Hindawi, BioMedCentral, PLoS

Copyright /Funders mandates

• SHERPA/RoMEO 
  Information on  publishers' policies and copyrightrules
• SHERPA/JULIET
  Funders' mandates for publishing and archiving

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