Evidence-based Research

Open Access information from Mason Publishing   https://publishing.gmu.edu/communication/open_access_publishing/

Read and Publish Agreements at Mason https://infoguides.gmu.edu/collections/OA 

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

SHERPA RoMEO  an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.

Predatory journals exploit features of Open Access and traditional publishing in order to make money from researchers. They often:

• accept articles quickly
• lack a true peer-review process
• claim to be indexed in places where they aren't
• take advantage of both the large number of journals available and also researchers' need to publish quickly in order to progress in their careers.

Bottom line: avoid publishing in predatory journals.

*credit is given to University of California Merced for their content.

There are several ways you can get information about a journal. Here are a few:

Evaluate Journals:

• Explore journal websites.
• Search the Internet to find more about their reputation, etc.

Many publishers offer services for identifying journals that will match content of an article.