UTS: LIBRARY
FINDING AN OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL TO PUBLISH IN
Find an OA journal
Select a high quality OA journal
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) http://www.doaj.org/
 search more than 9000 OA journal titles
 browse by discipline
 check if they have any article processing charges
Ulrichsweb Periodicals Directory http://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com
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 check bibliographic information of each journal
 limit search results to “open access” and “peer reviewed” view table of contents of the journals from library subscribed version
Check the impact factor or article citation rates of an OA journal
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (Access via Web of Science from library subscription)
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SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)( Access via Scopus from library subscription)
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Google Scholar- see how many citations the articles from an OA journal receive.
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PubMed Single Citation Matcher (PMC) – for life and health sciences journals only http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/citmatch
Check if the journal’s name is on ERA’s journal list http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/
For the journals not included in JCR, SJR, PMC and EAR’s journal list, below methods are useful:
Evaluate the background of an OA publisher
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Publishers on OASPA’s member list are preferred http://oaspa.org/membership/members/
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Check Jeffery Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers to avoid
Publishers with bad reputation http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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Choose OA journals created by non-profit academic institutions
(universities, government research agencies, scholarly research bodies, etc).
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Reputable traditional publishers have some OA journals eg.
Elsevier, SAGE, Wiley, Nature, Springer, Taylor & Francis.
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Check the journal’s editorial board and evaluate the published
 articles
NOTE APCs (Article Processing Charges often apply, they can be from $1000-$3000. There is some assistance, however this is an issue each faculty deals with in its own way). Also ask your research office if there are funds available.
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Use Article-level
Metrics (ALMs)
Alternative way of being open access
(the Green model)
More resources
If you’re applying for a grant, include publishing costs
Important! If you need financial support from UTS library, please check the journal list of UTS library’s APC pilot https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/open-access/publish/pilot-guidelines
Publishing in OA journal aims to extend author’s impact, it’s important to choose a publisher with good ALMs presentations
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ALMs examine the impact on article level instead of journal level
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ALMs incorporate both traditional citation and altmetrics data
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ALMs examine the impact, immediacy and socialization of an article
Example: PLOS ONE http://www.plosone.org/
Publish in Green OA- deposit pre-print manuscript or publisher’s version to institution’s repositories or subject OA repositories
Important! Be aware of copyright permissions:
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Deposit the copy of your article in Research Master. Library staff will pick it up form there and do the checks on whether a copy can be deposited in the institutional repository or on websites like www.Academia.edu
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Check copyright policies of publishers. The accepted manuscript is the key version that the library needs. This is sometimes called the Postprint. It’s the version post peer review.
Sherpa/Romeo’s publisher copyright policies & self-archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Find open access repositories
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The Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/
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Data archives
 https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/research/data-archives
Figshare http://figshare.com/
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UTS library’s Open Access Guidelines https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/open-access
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The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
(SPARC) http://sparc.arl.org/
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Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/licences
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