Research Guides: Research Impact: Choosing Where to Publish

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See the Journal Metrics page for information on journal impact factors and rankings.

Directories:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material. Look for the gold DOAJ seal and green checkmark beside a title.

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Ulrichs web is a source of detailed information on over 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

SHERPA/RoMEO is a directory of publishers' policies on self-archiving in open access repositories.

A group of preprint communities using the OSF infrastructure. Among those included are: AgriXiv, EarthArXiv, EcoEvoRxiv, ECSarXiv, engrXiv, FocUS Archive, LawArXiv, LIS Scholarship Archive, MediArXiv, MetaArXiv (formerly BITSS), MindRxiv, NutriXiv, paleorXiv, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, and SportRxiv.

arXiv.org
Open e-print archive with over 100000 articles in physics, 10000 in mathematics, and 1000 in computer science.
bioRxiv.org
The preprint server for Biology.
CORE - Open Access Repository for the Humanities
A full-text, interdisciplinary, non-profit social repository designed to increase the impact of work in the Humanities.
Preprints.org
A multidisciplinary preprint platform.
figshare
Includes any type of academic data: figures, datasets, media (including video), code, papers (including pre-prints), a thesis, posters, presentations and filesets (groups of files).
SlideShare
Includes presentations, infographics, documents, and videos.
Dryad
Hosts research data underlying scientific and medical publications. Historically, the repository has been strongest in the life sciences. Most data in the repository is associated with peer-reviewed journal articles, but data associated with non-peer reviewed publications from other reputable sources (such as dissertations and books) is also accepted.

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Preprints: The What, The Why, The How
ASAPbio Preprint FAQ
From a biological sciences perspective but has relevance for other fields.
Why DOI?
"DOIs increase the reach and impact of your work.
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Publishers, repositories, aggregators, indexers, and providers of research and academic profiles are now relying on DOIs to identify specific works accurately, which in turn more reliably links that work to its authors and creators. Furthermore, metadata and information about individual works are increasingly tied to DOIs."
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing