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Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

Use Journal Citation Reports to determine the Impact Factor (IP) for journals, which is one way of determining the relative worth of a journal in comparison with others in the same field. Impact Factor Presentation

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The Directory of Open Access Journals is an online database listing "free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals." Publishing in open access journals can increase impact and exposure of your work. Visit the Open Access page at the U of Illinois Scholarly Communication web site for more.

Issues in Scholarly Publishing

NIH Public Access Mandate Help

The NIH Public Access Mandate support site provides help to U of I researchers who need to submit their manuscripts to PubMed Central.

U of Illinois Scholarly Communication

Visit the U of Illinois Scholarly Communication Support Site for information scholarship in the digital world. Learn about retaining your copyrights, maximizing the impact of your research through open access, and find out how the University of Illinois is supporting your efforts. Keep up to date on issues that impact scholarship by reading the U of Illinois Scholarly Communication Newsletter (with RSS feed / email alerts)

IDEALS

IDEALS, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, is a secure archive where University faculty, staff, and students may place their scholarly manuscripts and other research products so they will be widely available and discoverable, with their access preserved for all time.

Sherpa's publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

Visit the SHERPA / ROMEO list to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement. Sherpa / Romeo is searchable by publisher name or journal title. Use this tool to find out if you can post open access versions of your articles in IDEALS or PubMed Central.

Citation Management Tools

Journal Abbreviations

The Journal Abbreviation Resources page will help you translate full journal titles into their proper abbreviations and translate from the journal title abbreviation into the full title.

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based citation manager. With it you'll be able to create a database of citations (by exporting citations into RefWorks from databases such as PubMed and Web of Science). Then you'll use your RefWorks database when writing papers, to put your references into the style required. Visit the U of Illinois RefWorks Support Site for help. Try it -- you'll like it!

How to use RefWorks (1 page pdf)

EndNote

Many researchers are using EndNote to manage their citations. It does the same things as RefWorks, but the program usually resides on your computer. For power users, it is more customizable and has more "styles" than RefWorks. Visit the U of Illinois EndNote Support Site for help.

Insert DOIs in a List of References

Many journals and funding agencies are requiring that authors include the DOI (digital object identifier) in the reference list of articles cited. CrossRef Simple Text Query lets you paste a text file containing references in the box provided, and, with one click provides the DOIs. Read more about the DOI harvesting tool.

If you use EndNote, send us your EndNote library and we'll insert a DOI field into each of the article records, and return the library to you.

Citation Style Manuals

The U of I Library Central Reference Department maintains a Citation Style Manuals page which provides details of how to cite resources using various styles: