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Open Access Publishing

Find open access journals

Assess journal quality

For help with identifying and evaluating open access publications, contact the library liaison for your subject area or the Scholarly Communications Librarian. 

If you've found an open access journal relevant to your research and want to ensure its quality, check if the journal is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and see if the publisher is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Other evaluation criteria you might want to consider include the journal's profit model, peer review process, journal metrics and impact factor, and the credentials of the editorial board and previously published authors. 

How Open Is It?

The “HowOpenIsIt?” Open Access Guide helps authors compare and contract journal policies on six fundamental aspects of open access: reader rights, reuse rights, copyrights, author posting rights, automatic posting, and machine readability.