Identifying journals in which to publish
- The Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields
This guide will help you to identify appropriate journals in which to publish your research and offers advice on how to prepare your manuscript.
ISI Journal Citation Reports
Evaluate and compare journals using citation data. Citation and article counts can be important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. To compare communication journals, follow these steps:
- Select a JCR edition year
- Select View a group of journals by Subject Categoery
- Submit
- Select COMMUNICATION and any other subjects that may be interested in your research
- submit
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
This directory includes over 240,000 magazines, journals, monograph series and more published around the world. Use it to ind information about a particular journal, such as to verify if articles in the journal are indexed or abstracted which makes the articles more accessible to readers. Also use it to identify journals published in specific subjects (disciplines). The advanced search allows you to limit by language, country, publication type, and more.
Scholarly Communication
Scholarlys who give their written work away by assignment copyright to publishers may lose some rights to use their own work, even in their own classrooms.
Higher education and governments spend billions of dollars a year to support scholarly research that their libraries then pay billions of dollars to buy back as published scholarship.
Here are some things you can do, as Authors, to transform the structure of scholarly communication.
As Authors, You Can ...
Submit papers to quality journals that have reasonable pricing and copyright practices. Jessica Albano, your subject librarian, can generate comparative journal pricing information for current communication journals in the UW Libraries.
Negotiate journal publishing contracts to retain all or some of your rights such as:
- Distributing copies to classes
- Including your work in a course pack
- Sending reprints to colleagues
- Author/institution self-archiving -- posting your work on your home page, your institutional repository, or a subject archive
- Review license possibilities such as the SPARC's license addendum or Creative Commons' licenses.
More information about scholarly communcation issues, including how they impact the University of Washington and your UW Libraries collections, is available ...
