After submitting your preprint to an Open Access repository of your choice, here are the tools you can use to decide which Open Access journal to submit your manuscript to:
Think. Check. Submit
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Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research. Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications. Go to thinkchecksubmit.org and follow the checkboxes.
Open Journal Matcher
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Additionally, you can copy & paste the abstract of your preprint into the #OpenJournalMatcher to get a list of all the affordable (or even free of APC) journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals that match the focus of your work: ojm.ocert.at
The Directory of Open Access Journals
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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Visit doaj.org
African Journals Online
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African Journals Online (AJOL) is the world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. AJOL works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. More than half of the repeat users are from Africa.
Visit www.ajol.info
Sherpa Romeo
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Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
Visit v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo