Where to Publish?

This Scholarly Communication toolkit provides a sixteen-point evaluation process for assessing journal quality that is based on factors such as peer-review process, editorial affiliation, clearly stated author fees, journal access and archiving, and appropriate marketing and solicitation.

This guide evaluates the openness of journals based on reader rights, reuse rights, copyrights, author posting rights, automatic posting, and machine readability.

This guide was produced by Christie Hurrell, Jessica Lange, Dominique Lapierre, Elizabeth Yates and Lise Brin for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries - Association des Bibliotheques de Recherche du Canada.

This journal evaluation rubric provides a two-step process for evaluating the credibility of a journal based on journal characteristics, editorial composition, and publisher information.

"Read through the items in the checklist below while reviewing the website in question. Mark “Yes” or “No” as appropriate. At the end of the checklist, count the number of “Yes” and “No” responses."

Guidelines for evaluating an open access journal based on positive indicators, negative indicators, and open access publishing models.