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VT Open Access Subvention Fund: OA Journals

VT Libraries offer an open access (OA) fund to subsidize article processing charges (APCs) for scholarly, peer-reviewed OA journals. This guide includes the request form, fund guidelines, and links to finding OA journals and publishers' OA policies.

Publish in authentic OA journals

Recognize potentially predatory journals:

  • Journal/publisher websites are unprofessional, including grammatical errors and/or typos
  • Poorly-written email invitations to publish in a given journal
  • Absence of journal indexing in appropriate sources
  • Absence of information about publishing costs in a given journal
  • Promises of unrealistically fast turn-around time for peer review and publication

OA journal directories:

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
 
SHERPA/RoMEO Database: Publisher's Copyright Policies
Find journal and publisher's policies by searching or browsing by journal titles or publisher names.
Search by ISSN also.
 
ThinkClickSubmit
Think. Check. Submit. is a campaign to help researchers identify trusted journals.
It is a checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.
 
UlrichsWeb
Search for detailed information about >300,000 periodicals of all types (i.e., not just scholarly or peer-reviewed).
Sort by the open lock to find OA journals.