Resources for Nurse Authors
Identify a Journal in Which to Publish
Open Access Journals
Author Guidelines for Manuscript Submission
Writing/Publishing Advice for Authors
How to Retain Essential Author Rights
Public Access Requirement for NIH-Funded Research
Identify a Journal in Which to Publish
Nurse Author & Editor Journals Directory
Core Nursing Journal Titles as Identified by the Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ulrichsweb.com)-login with name and UID# required for off campus access
Authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. Search by keyword or subject to get a list of potential publishing venues.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
A comprehensive resource for evaluating and comparing journals using citation data. Determine the most frequently cited, highest impact, and largest journals for fields in the sciences and social sciences. Nursing is one of the journal categories in the social sciences subset. Note: These data are limited to the journal titles that are currently tracked by Thomson ISI. Do not rely only on data from the JCR when evaluating a journal title; see Thomson ISI's
Using Journal Citation Reports Wisely.
Web Sites or Directories Listing Open Access Journals (from Lehigh University)
Also links to other resources about the concept of
open access publishing, including
definitions and overviews.
Journal Info from Lund University Libraries
"The purpose is to provide an aid for the researcher in the selection of journal for publication. The publication market has continuously grown more and more complex. It is important to weigh in facts like scope and quality, but more recently also information about reader availability and library cost. The Lund University Libraries have made an attempt to merge all these items into one tool, giving the researcher the power to make informed choices." There is a subject category for
nursing, but several other categories and subcategories may also be of interest due to the interdisciplinary nature of nursing.
Open Acess Journals
Web Sites or Directories Listing Open Access Journals (from Lehigh University)
Definitions and Overviews of Open Access (from Lehigh University)
Non-Exhaustive List of Resources about Open Access Publishing (from Lehigh University)
Find Author Guidelines for Manuscript Submission
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (from the Raymon H. Mulford Library at the University of Toledo)
Nurse Author & Editor Journals Directory
Most entries include author guidelines or submission instructions.
Writing/Publishing Advice for Authors
Nurse Author & Editor [Newsletter]
"Each issue consists of articles offering advice on writing quality manuscripts, avoiding rejection, finding publishing opportunities, editing and reviewing. Each issue also has a section containing short articles to update readers on new developments in nursing journals and journal publishing."
How to Retain Essential Author Rights
SPARC Resources for Authors
Informs faculty across all disciplines about how to use the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as authors of journal articles.
The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that authors may use to modify their publisher agreements, enabling them to keep selected key rights to their articles, such as:
- Distributing copies in the course of teaching and research
- Posting the article on a personal or institutional Web site
- Creating derivative works
