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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.

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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.

20% of peer-reviewed articles across all disciplines are now freely available.

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 http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml)
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

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals 

PLoS One  (Public Library of Science)
Open Access Barometer
20% of peer-reviewed articles across all disciplines are now freely available
Björk B-C, Welling P, Laakso M, Majlender P, Hedlund T, et al. 2010
"Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009."
PLoS ONE 5(6): e11273. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273

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)