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Scholarly Publishing: Finding a place to publish

Journal & Publisher Information Tools

Open Access Tools

Think. Check. Submit. is a campaign to help researchers identify trusted journals for their research.  It is a simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.” They also have one about conferences Think. Check. Attend.

Jane: Journal/Author Name Estimator uses this website to help determine the best MEDLINE journal to approach for publishing a manuscript.

SPI-HUB is a tool from Vanderbilt. Enter up to 5 keywords describing the topic of your research into the SPI-Hub database to identify journals in which to publish your work.

Scimago Journal  & Country Rating  is a free resource that uses citation data from Scopus to provide journal impact data.  It provides journal rankings by journal country of origin and numerous visual representations of journal impact data.