Find platforms, tools and services to help you publish your research.

 

  • Archivist

    Archivist

    Archivist is a platform for publishing interactive interview transcriptions online. Interactive historical documents are published as full transcriptions (in russian) complete with multimedia sources (audio, video). Editors are able to tag and link subjects, locations, persons and definitions in the text, so that the archive can be queried later in interesting ways.
    Audiovisual thinking

    Audiovisual thinking

    Audiovisual thinking is a journal of academic videos about audiovisuality, communication, media and design. A pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate, conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisuality and audiovisual culture through the medium of video.
    Biodiversity Data Journal

    Biodiversity Data Journal

    Biodiversity Data Journal is a community peer-reviewed, open access, comprehensive online platform, designed to accelerate publishing, dissemination and sharing of biodiversity-related data of any kind. All structural elements of the articles will be treated and stored as data.
    Biotaxa

    Biotaxa

    Biotaxa is a non-profit international collaboration among professional societies, institutions, publishers, museums and libraries for facilitating the publication, enhancing the access and enabling the preservation of journals in biological taxonomy.
    BiomedCentral (BMC)

    BiomedCentral (BMC)

    BMC (BiomedCentral) is an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. All articles are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication.
    Collabra

    Collabra

    Collabra is the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. It is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal that shares not only the research it publishes, but also the value created by the psychology community during the peer-review process.
    Creative Commons

    Creative Commons

    Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization at the center of a high-profile, international movement to promote sharing of creativity and knowledge. Provides free, easy-to-use copyright licenses to make a simple and standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work–on conditions of your choice.
    Centre of Open Science registered reports

    Centre of Open Science registered reports

    Documents that describe the research flow and that are submitted to journals before the research starts (“pre-registration”). Registered reports can be considered as a “Methodology” section of a paper, but more structured, detailed and separated from the paper. Not applicable to any field of science, but relevant for studies involving statistical analysis.
    Datacite

    Datacite

    DataCite is a leading global non-profit organisation that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data. Locate, identify, and cite research data with the leading global provider of DOIs for research data. Connect your research – publications, datasets, software, authors, institutions, and funding data all in one place.
    DHcommons journal

    DHcommons journal

    DHcommons journal is the journal of centerNet, the international network of Digital Humanities Centers. Publishing for the digital humanities community with a commitment to transparency and a balanced review process, which aims to provide comprehensive and constructive feedback for projects.
    DHNOW

    DHNOW

    Digital Humanities Now is an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web. DHNow has been refining processes of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review to open and extend conversations about the digital humanities research and practice.
    Discrete Analysis

    Discrete Analysis

    Discrete Analysis is an innovative overlay journal for mathematics, which consists of lists of links to arXiv preprints. Authors submit links to arXiv preprints, and then the editors of the journal find referees to decide which papers will be accepted.
    DOI

    DOI

    DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is the web site of the International DOI Foundation (IDF), providing Digital Object Identifier (DOI) services and registration.The DOI system provides a technical and social infrastructure for the registration and use of persistent interoperable identifiers, called DOIs, for use on digital networks.
    dokieli

    dokieli

    Dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions. You can simply add the dokieli CSS and JavaScript to any HTML page to immediately add in-browser editing and annotations.
    eLife

    eLife

    eLife is an open-access journal that publishes promising research in the life and biomedical sciences. Research is selected and evaluated by working scientists and is made freely available to all readers without delay. Revision requests are consolidated following an open, internal consultation among reviewers to deliver a single, concise set of the essential revisions.
    F1000Research

    F1000Research

    F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. You can publish all your findings including null results, data notes and more and engage with your reviewers openly and transparently.
    GigaScience journal

    GigaScience journal

    GigaScience is an open access, open data, open peer-review journal focusing on ‘big data’ research from the life and biomedical sciences. Publishes all research objects (data, software tools, and workflows). GigaDB provides a direct link between the published manuscript and the relevant supporting data.
    IPOL journal

    IPOL journal

    IPOL (image processing and image analysis) journal is a research journal with algorithms, source code and online demonstrations. Each article contains a text on an algorithm and its source code. Text and source code are peer-reviewed.
    Journal of Digital Humanities

    Journal of Digital Humanities

    Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community. Every article published includes the original date and location of publication, along with the date of revision, where applicable.
    LingOA

    LingOA

    LingOA is a Fair OA journal dedicated to general linguistics. It publishes contributions from all areas of linguistics, provided they contain theoretical implications that shed light on the nature of language and the language faculty.
    Matters

    Matters

    Matters is the next-gen science journal where you publish single observations and extend the subsequent ones in real-time. Publishes exclusively data that is confirmatory or contradictory to already existing publications. Triple-blind peer review. All published content, including raw data is freely available and is being archived and indexed.
    OJS (Open Journal Systems)

    OJS (Open Journal Systems)

    OJS is a journal management and publishing system, assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. This is open source software.
    Open Edition Books

    Open Edition Books

    Open Edition Books is a web platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. More than half of them are available in Open Access. Additional services are available through subscribing libraries and institutions.
    Open Library of Humanities

    Open Library of Humanities

    Open Library of Humanities is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). Publishing platform supports academic journals from across the humanities disciplines, as well as hosting its own multidisciplinary journal.
    OpenEdition Journals

    OpenEdition Journals

    OpenEdition Journals is a journals platform for the humanities and social sciences. Of our 100,000 articles, 95% are available in full-text access. OpenEdition has developed three other platforms: OpenEdition Books (monographs and edited volumes); Hypotheses (research blogs); and Calenda (a calendar of academic events).
    PaperNow

    PaperNow

    Paper Now is an experiment to see where the future may go with scholarly communication. Initially, it may be that co-authors collaborate either privately or publicly on GitHub and then proceed to submitting to PeerJ or other journals for formal peer-review or preprinting. It offers the possibility to create, edit and display a journal article in GitHub.
    PeerJ

    PeerJ

    PeerJ is a biological, medical and environmental sciences journal, that publishes the world's scientific knowledge through open access licensing. Indexed in Google Scholar, Pubmed, Scopus, Web of Science. Posting publication sharing tools, will help you boost the reach and impact of your work.
    PLoS One

    PLoS One

    PLOS ONE is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online science publication. Article-Level Metrics track the impact of articles through views, citations, saves, discussions and recommendations. Accepts original research in all scientific disciplines, including interdisciplinary research, negative results and replication studies.
    PressForward

    PressForward

    PressForward is a free and open-source software project. PressForward enables teams of researchers to aggregate, filter, and disseminate relevant scholarship using the popular WordPress web publishing platform.
    ProcPoS

    ProcPoS

    Proceedings of Peerage of Science is a peer-reviewed commentary journal. ProcPoS publishes commentaries, only. It is a platform for proper post-publication peer review. ProcPoS seeks to become the venue of choice for both positive and critical commentaries.
    PubPub

    PubPub

    PubPub is a free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. An open-source tool built for and by the community that uses it. Reviews can be made open to the public, or kept private.
    Research Involvement and Engagement

    Research Involvement and Engagement

    Research Involvement and Engagement is an Interdisciplinary, health and social care journal focussing on patient and wider involvement and engagement in research, at all stages. The journal operates using an open peer review system, where the reviewers' names are included on the peer review reports.
    ReScience

    ReScience

    ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research. Lives on GitHub where each implementation is made available together with comments, explanations and tests.
    Rio Journal

    Rio Journal

    The Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) is an Open Science Journal. It publishes all outputs of the research cycle, including: project proposals, data, methods, workflows, software, project reports and research articles together on a single collaborative platform, with the most transparent, open and public peer review process.
    Scientific Data

    Scientific Data

    Scientific Data (Nature) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data. Its articles combine traditional narrative content with curated, structured descriptions (metadata).
    ScienceOpen Research

    ScienceOpen Research

    ScienceOpen Research is a research and open access publishing platform that facilitates transparent and network-based post-publication peer review. It offers advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features.
    Self Journal of Science

    Self Journal of Science

    Self Journal of Science is a publishing platform, aiming to "to achieve optimal peer review, evaluation and classification of articles in a virtuously self-organized way". Authors can freely upload their articles on SJS, where novel open peer review features will allow to rigorously assess their validity.
    SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)

    SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)

    SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals in Latin America, Iberia and South Africa.
    WebMed Central

    WebMed Central

    WebMed Central is an open access biomedical publisher using post publication peer review. Publishes all articles without prior peer review in a climate of post publication peer review led by authors but supported by its team of advisors and editors. Guaranteed Biomedical Publication within 48 hours in a climate of post publication peer review.
    Wellcome Open Research

    Wellcome Open Research

    Wellcome Open Research is a platform for rapid, open access publication and open peer review of any research funded by Wellcome. All articles benefit from immediate publication, transparent refereeing and the inclusion of all source data. Supports reproducibility and transparency.
    ZooKeys journal

    ZooKeys journal

    ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed, open access, online and print, rapidly produced journal, launched to support free exchange of ideas, data and information in all branches of Zoology. It is one of the most dynamic and technologically advanced scholarly journals in its field.

  • Cabell directories

    Cabell directories

    Cabell directories is the complete source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details-for universities of any size. You can filter your results using our advanced search options and suite of citation-backed metrics.
    CoFactorScience

    CoFactorScience

    Cofactor is a company with a mission to help scientific researchers to publish their research effectively. It is done by providing expert training, advice and editing. Its free online tool can help you choose the best journal for your paper.
    DOAJ

    DOAJ

    DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ.
    Edanz journal selector

    Edanz journal selector

    Edanz journal selector ia an oline tool, that helps you enter your unpublished abstract and will find the best possible journals that have published relevant papers. You can filter results by field of study, impact factor range, SCI-E index and Open Access options.
    Enago journal information tool

    Enago journal information tool

    Enago is the trusted name in author services for the global research community. It gives you the possibility to maximize your chances of publication by letting Enago match you with the most appropriate journals for your particular research and requirements. Enago will provide vital feedback for your manuscript, including suggestions on how to improve your paper.
    HelioBLAST

    HelioBLAST

    HelioBLAST is a text similarity tool. Text similarity engine finds text records that are similar to the submitted query. Can be customized to search a particular database or multiple ones. Submissions are limited to 1,000 words, so it is recommend your query should be an abstract or paragraph.
    Jane

    Jane

    Jane is journal selection support with co-word analysis. Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.
    Journal Guide

    Journal Guide

    Journal Guide is a growing journal database across all academic fields. It offers four different ways to search, with filter and sort options to help you find the best journal for your paper in any field. You can select up to three journals to compare side-by-side on key factors.
    JournalReviewer

    JournalReviewer

    JournalReviewer is an independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes so that other others can be as informed as possible as they consider journal submissions.
    QOAM

    QOAM

    QOAM is a market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals in QOAM is based on academic crowd sourcing. In QOAM libraries use a Base Score Card to score the transparency of a journal’s website. Authors share their experience by completing a 2-minute Valuation Score Card.
    ROAD

    ROAD

    Road is is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre. ROAD provides a free access to a subset of the ISSN Register. It provides information about the quality and prominence of OA resources, or at least the criteria they meet, by indicating by what services or journal indicators they are covered.
    Scientific Journal Finder

    Scientific Journal Finder

    Get smart journal recommendations based on keywords in your paper's title and abstract. Helps researchers collect, extract, and analyze data, stay up to date with a customizable Reader, find collaborators globally in seconds with an interactive Lab Finder.
    SciForum Journal Reviews

    SciForum Journal Reviews

    SciForum Journal Reviews is a platform, that aims at publishing statistics and rankings of scientific and scholarly journals and their Publishers. Scientists and scholars that published in journals can rate the peer-review process and quality of the journals, and share their experiences by leaving comments.
    Scirev

    Scirev

    SciRev is a multidisciplinary website for researchers to share their experiences with various journals. You can share your experience with the scientific review process and select an efficient journal for submitting your manuscripts. The information, that is received is freely available to the entire research community.
    Sherpa/ROMEO

    Sherpa/ROMEO

    SHERPA RoMEO is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis.
    ThinkCheckSubmit

    ThinkCheckSubmit

    ThinkCheckSubmit is a checklist with criteria to judge trustworthiness of journals. Follow this check list to make sure you choose trusted journals for your research. It is a simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.

Find ways to share outputs that document and share research processes, including notebooks, protocols & workflows.

 

ArrayExpress

ArrayExpress

Archive for functional genomics data generated from microarray and next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. Data is archived together with detailed information about the experiments so that other researchers can interpret and reproduce the experiments without having to read a scientific paper.
Benchfly

Benchfly

BenchFly is the premier science video production platform designed by research and video experts. It provides both open access and private solutions to labs and companies allowing researchers worldwide to communicate via video. DOI numbers are issued to BenchFly videos.
Benchling

Benchling

Benchling is a data management and collaboration platform to create, find, and discuss protocols. It helps you to entralize your data on our secure, industry-grade lab notebook built specifically for biological sciences and chemistry researchers.
Docollab

Docollab

Docollab is a collaborative workspace for projects, tasks, documents, spreadsheets. With all your projects, tasks and files in one place, and with an easy and intuitive interface, all team members can focus on their work instead of dealing with multiple complex tools.
HiveBench

HiveBench

Hivebench is an easy-to-use Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) built by life scientists. Easy-to-use Lab Notebook helps you prepare,conduct and analyze experiments in one place.Hivebench uses cloud computing technologies to secure your data while allowing you to access it from anywhere.
JoVe

JoVe

JoVe is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes experimental methods in video format. It publishes the leading peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed video methods. Articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols which facilitate scientific reproducibility and productivity.
LabArchives

LabArchives

LabArchives is an innovative web-based product to enable researchers to store, organize, and publish their research data. It helps you to do all your work, store and collaborate in one place. You can also add attachments, files, photos and data instantly. It gets backed up and protected immediately.
myExperiment

myExperiment

myExperiment is a collaborative environment where scientists can safely publish their workflows and in silico experiments, share them with groups and find those of others. On myExperiment you can also find the other people, create and join collaboration groups.
OpenWetWare

OpenWetWare

OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. It provides a place for labs, individuals, and groups to organize their own information and collaborate with others easily and efficiently.
Open Notebook Science Network

Open Notebook Science Network

Open Notebook Science Network is the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded. ONS Network supports researchers of all disciplines to make their share their open lab notebooks, making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded.
Protocol online

Protocol online

Protocol online is a database of research protocols in a variety of life science fields. It contains protocols contributed by worldwide researchers as well as links to web protocols hosted by worldwide research labs, biotech companies, personal web sites.
Protocols.io

Protocols.io

Protocols.io is a repository of science methods and collaborative research platform, which helps you to move your scientific work forward with the protocols platform. It offers you the possibility to work on your own protocols privately or collaborate with thousands of other scientists through public methods. Additionally, it helps you to set a DOI for your protocol.
RPubs

RPubs

RPubs is a free service that makes it easy to publish documents to the web from R. RPubs lets you harness the power of R Markdown to create documents that weave together your writing and the output of your R code. With RPubs, you can publish those documents on the web.
Scientific Protocols

Scientific Protocols

Scientific Protocols is a free and easy way to share scientific protocols. By sharing scientific protocols we hope to encourage transparency in research and promote reproducibility of published results. Every protocol created on the website is also a GitHub Gist.
Sumatra

Sumatra

Sumatra is a tool for managing and tracking projects based on numerical simulation or analysis, with the aim of supporting reproducible research. It can be thought of as an ''automated electronic lab notebook'' for simulation/analysis projects.

 Find tools to help you create innovative visual representations of data.

 

CartoDB

CartoDB

CartoDB is the platform for turning location data into business outcomes. It enables drag and drop analysis and visualization of location data through the creation of insightful apps. Carto also provides a development framework to create location-based web and mobile applications.
Circos table viewer

Circos table viewer

Circos table viewer is a web tool, that visualizes tabular data in a circularly composed visualization. Visualization of data in a circular layout makes Circos ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions. Circos can be automated. It is controlled by plain-text configuration files.
Datahero

Datahero

Debategraph is self-service cloud BI that allows any user to quickly connect to cloud services without the help of an IT team. It helps you to create stunning charts and dashboards from any application you use. You can also get suggestions based on your specific data within DataHero or create your own customized charts.
Datawrapper

Datawrapper

Datawrapper is a user-friendly, open-source web tool that you can use to create interactive charts.You can feed Datawrapper with any data from Excel, CSVs, PDFs or the web. Choose from stunning graph and maps templates. Datawrapper graphs can be embedded into any website or CMS. With Datawrapper, your charts become interactive.
Desmos

Desmos

Desmos is an advanced graphing calculator implemented as a browser application and a mobile application. You can create graphs for (mathematical) functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more – for free.
Google Fusion Tables

Google Fusion Tables

Google Fusion Tables is a data visualization web application to gather, visualize, and share data tables. It enables you to combine your data with other data on the web. You can collaborate, visualize and share. All your data organization is automatically saved and stored in Google Drive.
Debategraph

Debategraph

Debategraph is a cloud based platform for mapping and supporting debates, that gives you a way to create, explore, and understand individual maps of thought, dialogue, and debate. You can use a set of complementary and cognitively enhancing visualizations.
Google Charts

Google Charts

Google Charts is an interactive Web service that creates graphical charts from user-supplied information. It offers a rich gallery of interactive charts and data tools. You can make the charts your own configuring an extensive set of options and connect to your data in real time using a variety of data connection tools and protocols. It provides cross-browser compatibility and cross-platform portability.
Image-maps

Image-maps

Image-maps is a basic online html image mapper tool. Use images from the web or your PC. Load the image, map out your links and get the code. Graphic image is designed in a way that allows different areas of the main image to be click-able by users. These click-able areas then link to different destinations that usually relate to the part of the image the user has clicked on.
Lynks

Lynks

Lynks is an online network visualization tool for everyone to use, free of charge. With Lynks you are be able to make network visualizations in no time and share them with whoever you choose. It helps you to explore and discover new insights in your data by visualizing it in an interactive graph.
Nodegoat

Nodegoat

Nodegoat is a web-based data management, network analysis & visualisation environment. You can create and manage any number of datasets by use of a graphic user interface. Within Nodegoat you are able to instantly analyse and visualise datasets. It allows you to enrich data with relational, geographical and temporal attributes.
Orange

Orange

Orange is an open source machine learning and interactive data visualization for novice and expert. Interactive data analysis workflows with a large toolbox and addon framework. You can drag and drop classifiers, network analyses and text analysis.
Onodo

Onodo

Onodo is an open source network analysis tool for non-tech users. By filling the table the network will pop up. Or by importing your own file and in two steps you will have your visualization ready. Add photos to each node, descriptions or extra information. Embed the visualization or story wherever you want or share it with everyone.
Palladio

Palladio

Palladio is a web-based visualization tool for complex data. Visualize your data, copy and paste out of your spreadsheets, drag-and-drop to upload tabular data or link to a file in a public Dropbox folder. You can export Map and Graph visualizations as .svg files, List visualizations as .csv files.
Plot.ly

Plot.ly

Plotly is an online data analytics and visualization tools. Its collaboration servers (available in cloud or on premises) allow data scientists to showcase their work, make graphs without coding, and collaborate with business analysts, designers, executives, and clients.
RAWGraphs

RAWGraphs

RAWGraphs is an open source data visualization framework. RAWGraphs works with delimiter-separated values (i.e. csv and tsv files) as well as with copied-and-pasted texts from other applications. Allows you to export visualizations as vector (SVG) or raster (PNG) images and embed them into your web page.
Tableau

Tableau

Make powerful data visualizations using any data. Interactive data visualizations and dashboards.Share dashboards and data. Share, collaborate, and govern securely at scale.
TAGS Explorer

TAGS Explorer

TAGS Explorer is an interface to TAGS based Google Spreadsheets of archived tweets. This data is analysed and the conversations between people are extracted and appear as connections. Hovering over a node gives you a summary of the data recorded in the archive. It's possible to filter the data displayed using the Google Visualization API Query Language.
Timeline.js

Timeline.js

Timeline.js is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS's core functionality. It works on any site or blog.
Ushahidi Platform

Ushahidi Platform

Ushahidi Platform is an open source web application for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. It helps you to collect info from: SMS, Twitter, RSS feeds, Email. Platform helps you to process that information, categorize it, geo-locate it and publish it on a map.
VisualEyes

VisualEyes

VisualEyes is a web-based authoring tool developed to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations. The project data comes from a simple spreadsheet, such as a CSV file or directly linked to a Google Docs spreadsheet.
VOS Viewer

VOS Viewer

VOS Viewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. It also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.
World Map

World Map

WorldMap is an open source software, for scholars who wish to explore, visualize, edit, and publish geospatial information. You can build your own mapping portal and publish it to the world or to just a few collaborators.

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