Open Access Journals are scholarly journals that make journal content openly available for viewing without charge. They are often divided into several categories:
Gold, Platinum and Open Access articles in Hybrid Journals are all acceptable for the purposes of fulfilling funding agencies Open Access Mandates.
Identifying Gold Open Access Journals |
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Simply enter a search and learn where it is published and what the agreement allows. |
Simply enter a search and use their filters to specify language, without fees, seal of approval, etc.
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Results Listing Publishers and Agreement Reduction (most are free) |
Results with Limiters |
Sherpa Services is an excellent tool if you want to know if a journal is Open Access, allows archiving of articles in repositories, about a Journal’s Policy, it’s Open access Compliance. It will not list any predatory publications.
B!SON helps you to find a suitable Open Access journal for your publication by leveraging semantic and bibliometric methods. Simply enter the details of your manuscript below or fetch the details of a paper via its DOI or arXiv ID. It is not necessary to provide all fields.
The journal information is provided by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) meaning no predatory publications are listed.
BISON cannot guarantee the correctness and details (like costs) due to ongoing changes made by publishers. Consequently, authors should check on the journal homepage for current rates before submitting.
Once you have identified various Open Access Journals in your field of research, the next step is to assess them to determine if it is a journal you wish to publish in. The following tools can help you to decide.
Helps researchers identify trusted journals for their research. Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications
Searchable by Article, Journal Title. Provides Impact Factors, whether or not a Journal is Open Access, and speed. Searches over 46,000 journals located via Pubmed and major Indices/Abstracts. List Indices each journal is cited in, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) provided.
Uses their own analytics to measure the impact of a journal and the articles within a journal. Has ability to track the impact over time. Also lists the cost effectiveness of article fees within different publications.
Enter in the name of your article, an abstract and select from a number of options (including Open Access) and JANE will recommend journals that match your publication and entered requirements. Focus is on Medicine.
Use the options provided to identify a journal that matches your requirements. Searches 95 titles.
Recommends titles from Elsevier's over 2900 journals. Lists Impact Factors where available, acceptance rates, Open Access options / fees and production times. Include CiteScore, Journal Rank and Source Normalized Impact per Paper under each journal's home page.
Recommends titles from Springer's 2500 journals. Includes open access options / fees, impact factors (where available), turnaround times and acceptance rates.
Recommends titles from IEEE's 170+ journals. Lists open access options, impact factors (where available) and turnaround times. Also lists conferences.
Predatory Journals are publications that promise you that they are scholarly but fail to meet the editorial and review criteria that distinguish scholarly publications from vanity publishers. Many have written about how to ascertain if a publication is predatory. There are also some tools you can use to determine if a journal is predatory:
JURN searches Open Access Journals, Books and Theses. It also lays claim to eliminating Predatory Publishers from its search.