Identifying core journals in your discipline or subject area:

• Journal titles you see repeatedly as you search databases, etc.
• Library catalogs: subject search "[Discipline or subject] Periodicals"
• Metasites
• Research guides to the discipline (see examples listed on this guide's homepage)
• Scholarly associations often publish journals
• Databases: "Browse journals" or "Publications" link
• Ask your professors
• ZSR Library "Find a Journal" page, "Subject Browse" option

How to tell scholarly journals from popular journals:

• Characteristics of scholarly journals (Cornell's guide)
• Finding scholarly articles (NC State's guide)

Locating journals in ZSR:

• See our "Journals" page.

"Open Access" journals:

• See "Resources" below.

Special features of journals:

• Theme issues, special issues
• Conference information
• Book reviews
• Advertising
• Editorial/association information
• Where it is indexed
• Apparatus (submission process, author information, editorial board)

Article features:

• Length at least 8-10 pages
• Abstract
• Author name and affiliation
• Bibliography
• Journal/publication
• Scholarly tone, specialized terminology of the field

Mindmap: Humanities Literature: How it's Published

Open Access resources:

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• JURN (free scholarly e-journals in the arts and humanities)
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Open Humanities Press

Cornell University Library guide to scholarly journals