Library Resource Guides: Open access publishing: Finding an OA journal

Publishing at Charles Sturt University

When publishing at Charles Sturt it is recommended that you first check that the journal is in:

The Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) List of Eligible Journals. This list includes FoR codes for disciplines.
The SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) is publicly available and includes journal Quartile ranks developed from the Scopus database.

Finding OA journals

The journal options flowchart (pdf) published by the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG) is a useful starting point, but there are a number of tools and services that may help you find a suitable open access journal in which to publish:

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of open access journals hosted by Lund University, Sweden, with details about '... 12000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities'. A 'community-curated' list of journals with standards for inclusion, aimed at ensuring credibility as research publications. Directly entries include article processing charges (APC) and Creative Commons licences.

SciMago journal & country rank

Database of journals and country scientific metrics indexed in the Scopus database. Search results can be limited to open access journals.

SHERPA/RoMEO

Database of publisher copyright and self-archiving policies

Ulrichsweb

Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory is a database providing detailed information about serials (periodicals) published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. covering nearly 1000 subjects. Search results can be filtered to only list open access publications.

The are different levels of Open Access, associated with reader rights; reuse rights; copyright; author or automatic posting rights of copies to a repository or website; and machine readability [crawling by search engines]. These different levels of access are described in the HowOpenIsIt? guide published by SPARC and the PLoS.

Other sources

Some Library database publishers also provide lists of journals that that they index, that include open access status. Contact a Faculty Librarian for help with accessing this information.