A free tool that helps researchers to evaluate scholarly journals. In addition to searching by journal name, category or publisher, authors can use the title and abstract of a paper to discover journals that have already published articles on similar topics.
A free tool to find the most appropriate journal for your topic, JANE includes titles from Medline.
An independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes so that other others can be as informed as possible as they consider journal submissions.
An online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a white list of reputable publishers, aiming to maintain a list of reputable open access publishers.
Launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals, DOAJ today contains ca. 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
A blog from DOAJ: "The following journals say, or have said in the past, that they are indexed in DOAJ but they are NOT. In some cases, they carry our logo without our permission".
A spreadsheet of journals removed from DOAJ for various reasons.
(both written by David H. Kaye, Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State)
Jeffrey Beall started a blacklist of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open‑access publishers in 2011 and maintained his list until January 2017, when it was shut down.
An archived version of Beall's list is still available. A snapshot from December 2016, it is a great resource to evaluate publishers as well as to check out a particular title. Another version is a copy of Beall's list of predatory publishers & journals, as retrieved from cached copy on 15th January 2017.
Beall's criteria to evaluate journals and publishers are still notable and valid. He suggests checking out the editor and staff of the journal, its business management and publishing practices, as well as its integrity.
Find archived lists on Archive.Is or the Internet Archive:
Publishers: Archive.is | Archive.org
Standalone journals: Archive.is | Archive.org
Hijacked journals: Archive.is | Archive.org
Metric companies: Archive.is | Archive.org
Rutgers University Library. (2021). Predatory Publishing: Databases & Lists. https://libguides.rutgers.edu/predatory/DatabasesLists