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Journal Selection

If you are planning to get published and are looking for target journals, you should ensure that the journals are authentic. This article provides expert tips that will…
The open access (OA) movement is gaining worldwide consensus as more and more countries are joining the effort to make research freely available.
This post clarifies the function of ISSN, the International Standard Serial Number, and affirms that because a journal has an ISSN assigned to it, it does not imply that…
With new open access journals entering the publication space every day, all with highly varied article-processing charges, how do you determine whether you’re really…
This post offers concise information for those planning to submit a paper to Psychological Science.
Authors often avoid publishing in open access journals as they are under the misconception that all open access journals charge high APCs. But what if one of the co…
The University of California Press announced the launch of a new online, open-access journal Collabra, which will pay peer reviewers and editors for their…
Few books come this close to providing sound advice on the intricacies of the publishing game as What Editors Want: an author’s guide to scientific journal publishing
Predatory behavior is growing rapidly in the publishing industry: it is no longer just the predatory journals and publishers; even predatory conferences are on the rise…
Abel Packer is one of founders of SciELO, or Scientific Electronic Library Online, and current Coordinator of the SciELO/FAPESP Program and Advisor of Information and…