Q. What are suitable journals for my thesis-related research to publish in, as a PhD candidate?

You will need to consider the following:

Review the Think. Check. Submit principles to evaluate the journal.

The cOAlition S has rolled out a ‘Journal Checker Tool’ to let researchers see their compliant publishing options for any journal. Need to know more? Review here.

You can also check the following platforms:

• Consult this simple OA Journal Publishing Checklist to help evaluate journals.
• You can find advice on Finding Scholarly Publishing Outlets to help compare and evaluate the relevant publications in your field.
• Does it Include links to Ulrichsweb, Scopus, Scimago website, Incites Journal Citation Reports?
• The Library Search box to see if the journal-title is listed ( e.g. does the journal have an ISSN?).
• Review the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) for high-quality, peer-reviewed OA journals.
• Consult Jisc's open policy finder, on a journal-by-journal basis, for publisher copyright summaries and OA archiving policies.
• Refer to the Predatory Journals list.

From the publisher website, a journal is peer-reviewed, well-indexed, and does not include a levy article processing charges (APC) is located.

Once the author is accepted and published, authors typically retain copyright over Gold OA articles, with publishers releasing the work under a Creative Commons license.

The article's CC BY 4.0 license means that the author will not have to negotiate the right to include it in their thesis or a monograph.

Key benefits of publishing GOLD AO:

• Available to a global audience without detail.
• Potentially more views, downloads and citations.