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
- OA Journals: OA Guide Link to VT OA Journals' LibGuide (Philip Young)
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
Search the Directory of Open Access Journals and filter by subject, journal title, publisher, license, etc.
Find journal and publisher's policies by searching or browsing by journal titles or publisher names.
Search by ISSN also.
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.
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.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access JournalsSearch the Directory of Open Access Journals and filter by subject, journal title, publisher, license, etc.
- SHERPA/RoMEO Database: Publisher's Copyright PoliciesSearch for (or browse by) publisher's policies by journal titles or publisher names