Tuesday 9 August 2016

Choose the right journal: Think > Check > Submit




Think. Check. Submit is a campaign set up by a coalition of partners from the scholarly communications field to help researchers to identify creditable journals in which to publish. It also helps them to assess open access publishers who may have approached them.


Researchers work through a check list to assess the journal they are investigating. If they can answer yes to the majority of questions then it is likely that it's worth submitting research to.


This article by Jonathan Manely gives an insight unto the problem of opaque open access journals and how to avoid them.


For further advice contact your Academic Liaison Librarian or RaY