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Publishing Journal Articles for Undergraduates

Learn how to identify relevant journals, avoid predatory publishers, and manage your citations

Open Access

Gold APC

Article Processing Charge (APC)

Non-subscription journals
APC paid by authors
Authors retain copyright

Gold Hybrid

Peer-reviewed articles are published in subscription-based journals and made available via open access
Authors may pay APC
Variety of models

Self Archiving

Institutional repository
Subject-specific repository
Scholarly social media (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu
No peer review
No cost to authors
Authors retain copyright

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
A directory to free, full-text, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals published on the Internet in a variety of academic subjects. All journals included use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access.

Publishers' copyright policies & self-archiving
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. Maintained by SHERPA partnership in the U.K.
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
The international community of OA book and journal publishers with a goal of developing business models, tools and standards to support OA publishing,