LibGuides: Getting Published: Choosing and Evaluating Journals: Identifying Journals and Publishers

Word of Warning

If you are contacted by an unknown publisher soliciting your work, or if you are considering publishing in a newly established journal, you should carefully evaluate the publisher to ensure it is legitimate. The directories listed on this page will help you find reputable journals. The other pages in this guide will help you to identify and avoid disreputable journals.

Multi-Disciplinary Directories of Journals

Cabells This link opens in a new window
Cabells has set itself the task of policing predatory publishing. Faculty and students seeking to publish their work in scholarly journals can use Cabells to assess the stature and integrity of the journals they are considering. The Predatory Reports list allows a researcher to see which journals are violating best practices and specifically what they are doing wrong..
Subject Coverage:
accounting, economics and finance, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, education psychology and administration, educational technology and library science, psychology and psychiatry, computer science and business information systems, health administration, nursing, mathematics, astronomy, biological science, chemistry, geology, oceanography, physics

Dates of Coverage:
recent editions
Update Frequency:
at least annually
Size:
more than 11,000 journals in the Journalytics database
more than 15,000 journals in the Predatory Reports database
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Is a comprehensive list of scholarly journals which make the full text of their articles freely available on the web.
Subject Coverage:
a large variety of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
"regularly"
Size:
more than 1,800,000 articles
BrowZine Web This link opens in a new window
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A browsable newsstand of the library’s online journals. Easily discover, read, and monitor the key journals in your field.
A version that is an app for mobile devices is also available.
SEE
http://research.moreheadstate.edu/browzine

Career & Technical Education Database (List of Publications Indexed)
Non-scholarly but still reputable trade publications