Library Foundation

When investigating where to publish a new article, try these ideas:

1. Perform a general database search on your topic to see which journals have accepted articles in your topic area.

2. Think cross-disciplinary. Consider journals from disciplines closely related to your topic.

3. Try Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. TWU Login required. Search for journals using SUBJECT search.

JANE:
Journal / Author Name Estimator

Not sure where to submit your newly written article? Enter the title and/or abstract in the textbox and click
--Find journals
--Find authors
--Find articles

JANE will compare your text to documents in Medline and offer suggestions.

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publications
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
University of Toledo
Mulford Health Sciences Library
(comprehensive archive of links to submission guidelines)

Consider Acceptance Rates when choosing where to submit your manuscript.

• Journals with lower acceptance rates are frequently considered to be more prestigious / meritorious.
  
  
• Acceptance rates can be found in the "Information for Authors" area of the print journal and online journal webpages.
  
  
• Some professional societies publish acceptance rates for journals they publish or journals within a particular field

Also consider how many issues a journal publishes annually. Journals publishing monthly accept fewer submissions than journals publishing bi-monthly.

Wnat to publish in an Open Access journal. Need help determining where to submit your manuscript?

JOURNAL SELECTOR

In the textbox provided, enter the following:

• Your Abstract   OR
• Description of your research   OR
• Sample Text

Journal Selector will list relevant Open Access Journals.

* can request Impact Factor    

* free tools from edanz

What Is Open Access?

A publication model where in neither readers nor a reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright … should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited
(Source: Budapest Open Access Initiative)
Definitions of open access also often include the provision that the article or resource will be deposited in an open access repository committed to long-term preservation.
(from Library of Congress)

Two Types of Open Access

• Gratis - free online access to information
• Libre - free online access to information plus additional usage rights

Funding Sources:

• author pays
• institution supporting the author pays
• line-item in research grant funding 

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.