Help Selecting Journals
- JANE - Journal Author Name EstimatorSuggests journals based on your paper's title and/or abstract.
- Journal Citation Reports (ISI)Provides citation counts and impact measures for journals in broad subject categories.
- Ulrich's Periodicals DirectoryProvides general information on journals, including editors, name changes and databases that index the articles.
- Beall's List of Predatory Open Access Publishers (Archived Copy)
Note: Beall's List is no longer online. This is an archived version of the site as of January 2017 and will not be updated. This resource lists potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers according to somewhat controversial criteria.
- Think, Check. SubmitA cross-industry initiative to provide authors with criteria for evaluating journals, from BioMed Central, the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers, Directory of Open Access Journals, individual publishers and others.
- Directory of Nursing JournalsThe International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) provides this vetted, opt-in listing of nursing journals.
- Journal GuideIncludes impact information, author guidelines, and other useful information to help with journal selection.
- University Grants Commission (India) Approved Journal ListThe UGC is the Indian national higher education standards and credentialing agency. Since late 2016, only articles published in journals listed here are eligible for consideration in hiring and tenure considerations.
- ICMJE WhitelistThe International Committee of Medical Journal Editors provides an opt-in listing of journals which follow its standards.
Alternative Publishing Formats & Approaches
- FigShareAllows researchers to publish videos, datasets and other formats often considered "supplemental materials". Specifically promoted as a place to publish null results.
- DryadInternational repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Governed by a consortium of journals that promote data archiving.
- RunMyCodeCreate a companion website to a paper allowing people to run computer codes associated with the paper using their own data and parameter values.
- SciveeResearchers can upload research articles and synchronize them with video commentary. Videos of slide or poster presentations can also be uploaded.
- Nanopublishing and MicroattributionLinks to a 2012 article in Human Mutation
These terms refer to essentially the same thing - "the smallest unit of publishable information: an assertion about anything that can be uniquely identified and attributed to its author".
For more info see NanoPub.org.
Writing and Editing Help
The American Medical Association's style guide provides information on different publications types, such as review articles and guidelines, as well as detailed guidance for manuscript preparation and formatting references.
Check for Plagiarism
Plagiarism-checking software for instructors, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates engaged in high-level research.
Publisher Copyright & Open Access Information
- PeerJ and PeerJ Computer SciencePenn Libraries have an institutional plan with the PeerJ journals. The libraries support a lifetime membership at the Basic level (basic level provides one article per year) for Penn faculty who have been accepted for publication with PeerJ.
- Biomed CentralPenn Libraries’ membership offers 15% discount on article processing fees to Penn authors.
- PubMed Central, Automatic SubmissionJournals which automatically submit manuscripts to PMC on an author's behalf.
- SHERPA ROMEOSearch for publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.
- Directory of Open Access JournalsFree, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons
- ScholarlyCommons HomeLinks to the Repository, SelectedWorks site and contact information.
- Open Access ResourcesLearn about Open Access policies.
- Copyright BasicsResources related to copyright.