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Identify Journals

Links to directories of journals by reader and emphasis (including open access journals) and sources to help with journal acronyms and abbreviations.

CINAHL Title Coverage Lists
Indicates indexing and full text coverage in the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature.
Directory of Open Access Journals
View selection and inclusion criteria for DOAJ.
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
List compiled at the Mulford Health Science Library at the University of Toledo: "Links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to 'primary sources' - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles."
Jane: Journal/Author Name Estimator
Identify relevant journals by typing in a paper title or relevant keywords from a paper.
Limited to biomedical subjects. The Biosemantics Group is funded by the Netherlands Bioinformatics Center.
Journal Titles Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Databases (formerly known as the ISI and Thomson Scientific Databases, respectively)
Databases include Science Citation Index – Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and several others.
NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases
Also includes links to Journals currently indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed Central.
Directions: How to Access the List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
Bibliographic information for all journals ever indexed over time for MEDLINE ®. It includes titles that ceased publication, changed titles, or were deselected. To use the list, you must accept the terms and conditions . Note: Static list is available annually in XML format only. Search the NLM catalog to generate journal lists.

MLA Directory of Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Review a List of over 4000 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and submission for publication criteria.

Journal Abbreviations & Acronyms

Acronym Finder
All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources at Abbreviations.com
A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.
NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases
Also includes links to Journals currently indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed Central.

Selected Open Access Information & Resources

Directory of Open Access Journals
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
"Our mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing models, advocacy, education, and the promotion of innovation."
Open Access Directory
“The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them, use them for reference, and update them."

BioMed Central This link opens in a new window
BMC publishes open access journals in the biomedical field.

Public Library of Science
A nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
PubMed Central
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Questionable Journals

Grand Valley State Libraries' Open Access Quality Indicators
Guidelines to help you evaluate open access publications.
Communication in Science: Pressures & Predators (Special Issue of Science)
This special issue of the journal Science includes John Bohannon's article about lack of peer review at predatory journals--"Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"

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