Tools for Selecting a Journal Publisher
JISC has combined the three Sherpa services, Sherpa Fact, Sherpa Romeo and Sherpa Juliet, into a single platform with a new name, Open Policy Finder.
The new platform will help authors and institutions make informed and confident decisions on open access publication and compliance via a single streamlined and user-friendly interface.
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.
Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers 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.
Finding Open Access Content
SRSU Library and Archives provides access to extensive collections as well as partnerships with other universities to help you get the materials you need for your classes and research, but situations may still arise where you want to find openly accessible content. For example, you may be writing for a public (non-academic) audience, without access to the collections and services of an academic library.
One strategy is to limit your search results in a database to just open access content.
Here are a few more tools for finding open access content:
This is a searchable directory of open access journals across all disciplines.
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
Support for Open Access Journal Editors
It is important to register open access journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals as a discovery tool. In addition, the record can then be automatically harvested for inclusion in library catalogs around the world. More information on applying for your journal to be in DOAJ is available.
Librarians can identify publishers of indexing and abstracting databases that may accept your journal for inclusion. Librarians can make direct recommendations to some publishers (e.g. EBSCO or ProQuest), or provide contact and policy information for others (e.g. Web of Science).
Librarians can ensure that a record is created for the relevant SRSU Library and Archives catalog(s).
Resources for transitioning a traditional, subscription-based journal to open access: