Choosing a journal for your research: Checklist for researchers and librarians | EIFL

"...Choosing where to publish is a very important issue for researchers. Choices are often influenced by researchers’ desire to ensure timely and wide dissemination of their research results while at the same time meeting requirements set by their institutions and/or research funders, as well as requirements that researchers need to meet for research evaluation, assessment and promotion. Choices are therefore often not easy to make.

Building upon the Diamond OA Standard (DOAS), developed by the Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication (DIAMAS) project, and the checklist Think. Check. Submit, this guide explains how to analyze the main elements of a journal and the information provided on its website to understand if it is right for your research..."