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The session will focus particularly on choosing a publication venue for your journal article, we will look at a range of tools to allow you to evaluate journals, what this means for your work as well as start to develop a personal ranked list of possible journals. We will also look at how the evaluation of journals is changing and consider the benefits and drawbacks of various journal and article metrics. Finally, we will touch on the various publication models and methods of peer review used by modern journals.

This session will cover all disciplines and subject areas but will be of particular interest to STEM researchers.

By the end of the workshop you will have:

• Investigated a range of tools to evaluate different scholarly journal titles and other trade publications in a range of subject areas

• Had an introduction to open access and what it means for journal publication

• Have a solid understanding of what journal metrics are, how to find them and why they might be useful