Crossposting from “The Tree of Life”: How to find an Open Access journal for submitting your paper(s) …
Got asked a question on Twitter that seems worthwhile to post here
@phylogenomics any suggestions for appropriate open access journal for a geomicrobio/clay mineral – Cr reduction/ kinetics paper?– Paul Glasser (@glasserp) August 21, 2012
Well,
@glasserp a good place to start is “Directory of Open Access Journals” doaj.org– Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) August 21, 2012
Also
@glasserp a great tool is Journal/Author Name Estimator “JANE” biosemantics.org/jane/ – w/ “extra options” you can choose access policies– Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) August 21, 2012
And
@glasserp for JANE just paste in your abstract or key words and search journals and it will ID good candidates– Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) August 21, 2012
Basically what I was suggesting was two possible steps. The first is to search the Database of Open Access Journals which is a great place to browse to see what the possibilities are.
Another great resource/tool is JANE – the Journal/Author Name Estimator. I love Jane and use it all the time (if interested also see the paper on Jane here). The default screen for Jane looks like this:
And you can certainly use the default options. Just type in some keywords, or copy and paste a document or abstract of a paper and select “Find Journals” and voila you get some suggested journals which match your text. So for example if I paste in “evolution genomes novelty phylogeny microbes” and search for journals I get some useful suggested journal matches
