ResearchGuides: Chemistry: Journals

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Recommended Open Access Journals in Chemistry

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ACS Central Science
A new journal that’s free to readers and authors

Launched in early 2015, ACS Central Science is a multidisciplinary, highly selective, peer-reviewed journal that will be completely open access.
Chemical science
Chemical Science is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing findings from across the breadth of the chemical sciences. Since 2015 there are no submission, publication or article download charges for this journal.
International journal of molecular sciences
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067; CODEN: IJMCFK; ISSN 1661-6596 for printed edition) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal providing an advanced forum for biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, molecular biophysics, molecular medicine, and all aspects of molecular research in chemistry. Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.

Information about publishing

Journal evaluation
Impact factor and JUFO-levels
Webinar on predatory journals
How to evaluate quality of OA-journals: click the link and scroll down the page.
Open Access: Guide for Researchers
Everything you need to know about Open Access-publishing.
Article Processing Charges
Information about APCs and discounts provided by Helsinki University Library.
CC-licences
Which licence should I choose for my OA-publication?
Tuhat
How to add and edit content to Tuhat?
Orcid
Get your own unique researcher identifier.

YOU HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS TO PUBLISH YOUR RESEARCH OPENLY:

GREEN OPEN ACCESS
Publish your work openly in an institutional or in a subject based e-archive according to the agreements of the copyrights owner.
Self-archiving
Researchers of the University of Helsinki self-archive their research to TUHAT or send the AAM file to the library's deposit service.

E-print services or e-archives
Open repositories of the discipline (i.e. ArXiv, bioRxiv, PubMed Central, RePEc or SocArxiv) are useful when you wish to disseminate your paper. Remember still self-archiving to TUHAT.

GOLD OPEN ACCESS
Publish your article in a journal that supports Open Access.
Publish your book by using Open Access -based services.
Journals and book publishers often charge APCs or BPCs (Article Processing Charge, Book Processing Charge) fees. You have to pay the publishing fee (APC or BPC) or find an institutional source to pay the fee. Usually suitable licence is available.

BRONZE OPEN ACCESS
Model of open access publishing, where the open access sharing licence is not in use.

HYBRID OPEN ACCESS
Make an article openly accessible by paying the publishing fee (APC or BPC) or find an institutional source to pay the fee. Rest of the articles of the journal still remain behind a paywall. Hybrid open access often means institutions and libraries have to pay twice for the same content.

ADDITIONAL OPEN WAYS
Open publishing for example on writer´s own www-pages or on social media sites. Does not meet the requirements of the research funders.