LCU Library: Faculty Services: Publishing Information

Library Services

Select a quality journal that you know in your field or from your research
Check the journal website for instructions to author instructions
Audience: scope, aim area of research and types of manuscripts published
Peer Review: length of the review process, rejection rate, fees
Impact, Ranking & Journal Information: aggregate impact metrics from citation frequency, influence, circulation, articles per year, open access options/fees.
Author Rights: retaining the right retain intellectual property, option to re-use all or limited portions of your work.

Not sure which journal to contact about publishing your work?

Journal / Author / Name Estimator (JANE)
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? JANE can help!

Getting Published
Tips for planning and writing manuscripts, including deciding on the kind of manuscript, following author guidelines, formatting, and thinking about target audience.

Think Check Submit
Think. Check. Submit. is a campaign to help researchers identify trusted
journals for their research. It is a simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.

Author Rights - ASU Library
A guide to issues in scholarly communication, including publishing, open access, copyright, author rights, and digital archiving
Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher's Perspective
Guidelines to support all those involved in scholarly publishing with a summary of best practice guidance
How to convert an oral presentation to a manuscript
Tume, L.N., Vollam, S. and Trapani, J. (2021), How to convert your conference abstract into a paper for Nursing in Critical Care. Nurs Crit Care, 26: 4-5.
How to Spot a Predatory Publisher
What is predatory publishing? Tips on how to identify them and tools to use.
Issues in Scholarly Communication
Your rights as an author (Univ. of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign Library)
Publish, Not Perish
The art and craft of publishing in scholarly journals.
Reshaping scholarly communication
Scholarly research publications and their distribution models are changing. This site is a resource for faculty, researchers, students and staff.
Scholarly Communication Toolkit
Purpose is to integrate a scholarly communication perspective into library operations and programs and help prepare presentations on scholarly communication issues for administrators, faculty, staff, students, or other librarians.
Tools for Authors - Find the right journal
These pages bring together details and tools that may be helpful for formatting manuscripts and submission.