How to use this guide
Search
In the Journal Browser, the search box can be used to look up journals. The terms entered in this box are used to search the journal titles and other metadata (e.g. keywords):
- Type part of the title in the search box and press Search.
- Select the title of the journal to read more information on the open access possibilities and instructions to get a discount (if available) and impact.
Filter
It is possible to apply additional filters on the search results. These concern no/full costs and discounts for Open Access publishing, support on Open Access publishing in journals, and the quartile to which the journal’s impact factor belongs.
Value
When one selects a journal in the Journal Browser, the following information may be presented:
- General information about the selected journal such as title and ISSNs, together with a link to the journal’s website.
- APC discount that holds for the selected journal if it is part of an Open Access deal.
- Impact measures for the selected journal from Journal Citation Reports or Scopus. The impact measures that are shown may vary, depending on the university from which the Journal Browser is consulted. For some universities, the number of citations made to the selected journal (in articles published by staff from that university) is also shown.
- Information from Sherpa/Romeo on the conditions under which articles from the selected journal may be made available via Green Open Access.
- A listing of articles recently published in the selected journal.
- For some universities, information is available on what journals have been co-cited most frequently together with the selected journal (in articles published by staff from these universities). When available, this information is presented under ‘similar journals’.