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This guide aims to assist with Open Access publishing by helping to identify potential non-scholarly, for profit
only publishing practices, also known as predatory publishing.
Getting Start(l)ed?
Evaluation Tools
Databases & Lists
Databases to
Find Journals
(The former)
Beall's List of
Predatory
Publishers
Open Access
Publishing
Action! Checklists
Scholarly Articles
Background
Directory of Open Databases to Find Journals
Access Journals -
DOAJ JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator)
The Directory of A free tool to find the most appropriate journal for your topic, JANE includes
Open Access titles from Medline.
Journals is a white Journal Citation Reports (RU restricted)
list of reputable In addition to providing Impact Factors of journals, JCR allows you to
publishers, aiming to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from approximately
maintain a list of 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from
reputable open more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.
access publishers. JournalGuide
Directory of Open A free tool that helps researchers to evaluate scholarly journals. In addition to
Access Journals searching by journal name, category or publisher, authors can use the title
and abstract of a paper to discover journals that have already published
Launched in 2003 at
articles on similar topics.
Lund University,
Journal Reviewer
Sweden, with 300
open access
journals, DOAJ today
An independent site that aggregates information users provide about their
experience with academic journals' review processes so that other others can
be as informed as possible as they consider journal submissions.
contains ca. 9000
open access journals MEDLINE
covering all areas of Search the Catalog of the National Library of Medicine for "currentlyindexed"
science, technology, to retrieve a list of journals currently indexed in MEDLINE, the premier source
medicine, social for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature.
science and Predatory Reports: Predatory Journals in Scientific Publishing
humanities. Lists of predatory publishers and journals updated annually by an
organization made up of volunteer researchers who have been harmed by
List of journals
predatory publishers and want to help researchers identify trusted journals
falsely claiming to
and publishers for their research.
be indexed by
SHERPA/RoMEO
DOAJ
An online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access
A blog from DOAJ:
policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving
"The following
permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal
journals say, or
basis.
have said in the
past, that they are WorldCat (RU restricted)
indexed in DOAJ A composite catalog of library collections that enables users to search for
indexed in DOAJ A composite catalog of library collections that enables users to search for
Blogs to Follow (The former)
books, Beall'sarchival
journals, List of materials,
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Publishers government publications,
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carry our predatory scholarly open‑access publishers in 2011 and maintained his list
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Journals
without our until January 2017, when it was shut down.
permission".
Flaky
An archived version of Beall's list is still available. A snapshot from December
Academic
DOAJ: Journals 2016, it is a great resource to evaluate publishers as well as to check out a
Conferences
added and particular title. Another version is a copy of Beall's list of predatory publishers &
removed
{both written by journals, as retrieved from cached copy on 15th January 2017.
A spreadsheet
David H. Kaye, of
Beall's criteria to evaluate journals and publishers are still notable and valid. He
journals removed
Distinguished
suggests checking out the editor and staff of the journal, its business
from DOAJ
Professor forat
of Law
management and publishing practices, as well as its integrity.
various
Penn State)reasons.
Find archived lists on Archive.Is or the Internet Archive:
Publishers: Archive.is | Archive.org
Standalone journals: Archive.is | Archive.org
Hijacked journals: Archive.is | Archive.org
Metric companies: Archive.is | Archive.org
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