LibGuides: Publishing & Measuring Scholarly Work: Publishing Your Work

The Peer Review Process

Article peer reviewing is regarded as an important element for ensuring quality in research.

Ulrich's Periodicals directory

To find out if a journal is peer reviewed use Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Look up the title of the journal and see if it has the Refereed symbol next to it (more detail is on the site).

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities

Helps you to determine which journals typically publish manuscripts similar to yours, type of review, number of reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, number of copies required and manuscript topics.

Publishing Avenues

Cabell’s Journalytics This link opens in a new window
Helps you to determine which journals typically publish manuscripts similar to yours or could be the best fit for your manuscript. Includes information on the style and format of most journals to further assist you in organizing and preparing your manuscripts, type of review process used by the editor(s) of a journal, type of review, number of reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, number of copies required and manuscript topics.
Ulrich's Periodicals directory This link opens in a new window
Detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals. To find out if a journal is peer reviewed use Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Look up the title of the journal and see if it has the Refereed symbol next to it (more detail is on the site).

Where you publish matters: Learn more about open access & predatory (deceptive) publishing

The Open Access movement has resulted in an exponential increase in the number of new online publishers. Many of these publishers are very questionable (please be aware) and might exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts. Consult the following resources to identity practices used by predatory publishers as well as lists of open access journals that re considered non-deceptive.

Identifying Deceptive Publishers: A checklist
Provided by the University of Toronto

Think. Check. Submit.
Choose the right journal or publisher for your research
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
From: The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
Cabells Journalytics
In response to the growing number of predatory publishers, Thomson Reuters shines a light on the deceptive practices that threaten to undermine quality research and presents the criteria that the Cabells Review Board uses to evaluate all journals suspected of deceptive, fraudulent, and/or predatory practices.
CRKN Open Access Journals List
A list of open access journals hosted at CRKN member institutions, maintained by CRKN with the goal of improving the discoverability of peer-reviewed Canadian open access journals. To be eligible for this list, a journal must be: open access, scholarly, peer-reviewed and hosted at a CRKN member institution.