Directories
Although you are likely to be aware of the many journals in your research area, journal publication directories can help you identify periodicals with which you may not be familiar. These directories can also provide contact information, circulation data, and other bits of information such as where the journal is indexed and where online the full text may be found.
The following are directories you can check for this information.
- Ulrich's This link opens in a new windowUlrich's is an international directory of periodical publications in print. Not only containing publication information for scholarly and academic journals, Ulrich's can also be used to locate newsletters, popular magazines, open access journals, and newspapers. A lot of information about a journal can be found in an Ulrich's entry. Information is presented in a tabbed format. A typical entry in Ulrich's contains:
Title of Publication
Publication Status (active or ceased)
Start year
Frequency of publication (monthly, quarterly, etc.)
Language
Whether or not the publication is refereed
Subscription price
URL
Where the journal is indexed and abstracted and where online access can be found
Ordering Information
Reviews (from Magazines for Libraries, which identifies core titles and give estimates of information and research value)
Ulrich's can also be browsed by subject or searched by keyword in case you are looking for publications dealing with a particular subject of discipline. Ulrich's, although rich in information does not contain acceptance rates or submission guidelines.
- Directory of Open Access JournalsFree, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
- SCImago Journal and & Country Rank This link opens in a new window
A publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. Journals can be compared or analyzed separately. Country rankings may also be compared or analyzed separately. Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject category (313 specific subject categories) or by country. Citation data is drawn from over 34,100 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers and country performance metrics from 239 countries worldwide. Scimago Lab