Research Guides: Services for Faculty: Publishing & Citation Reports

Finding Publishing Venues

Consult these resources to find publishing venues.

Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory This link opens in a new window
Identify refereed journals in a particular subject discipline and locate guidelines for manuscript preparation and submission.
Cabells This link opens in a new window
Scholarly analytics, contact information, submission guidelines, acceptance rate, type of review, etc., "journalytics" for journals in business, education, psychology, computer science--business information systems, and health administration; also documents violations in "predatory reports" that have questionable peer review or publication practices, website inconsistencies, etc.
MLA Directory of Periodicals (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new window
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Describes approximately 5,500 journals in literature, language and linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and publishing, providing scope, circulation, and submission requirements

Think. Check. Submit.
Provides tools and checklists to help researchers identify trusted journals
SPARC Author Rights
From the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (Association of Research Libraries), which includes information on retaining intellectual property rights for your journal articles.
Know Your Copy Rights
Association of Research Libraries
Publisher Copyright Policies and Self-Archiving
From SHERPA/RoMEO services at University of Nottingham

JCR Science Edition contains data from over 8,000 journals in science and technology.

JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,600 journals in the social sciences.

evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 11,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 80 countries.
use the only source of citation data on journals which includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
see the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field.

InCites Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Science edition and Social Sciences edition

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Start with a cited reference search (under drop-down choices to the right of Basic Search) in this database, which includes citation indexes for science, the social sciences, and arts and humanities
EBSCO Databases This link opens in a new window
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Follow up with similar searches in these databases.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
End with similar searches here.