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Publishing Research

This guide offers assistance in where to publish research as well as how to publish, such as through open access.

Predatory Publishing: a dishonest publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals

Avoiding Predatory Publishers

Check whether your subject discipline has a vetted list of predatory and/or legitimate journals.

Submit to the Think, Check, Submit tool.

Evaluate for the common characteristics of predatory publishing (listed below).

Ask the Scholarship and Data librarian.

Common Characteristics:

  • Open Access publishing model
  • Name of journal similar to others (“sound alike publishing”)
  • Lack of peer review or short peer-review timeline
  • Small time frame to publish (“fast track publishing”)
  • Fabricated editorial and review boards
  • Incomplete or "flashy" websites