Tools For Publishing Your Research

Open access platforms

eLife 

Open access to the most promising advances in science.

F1000Research 

Open science publishing, using immediate publication followed by transparent peer review.

GigaScience 

The online open-access open-data journal that publishes ‘big-data’ studies from the life and biomedical sciences.

Limn 

The free journal that outlines contemporary problems.

PeerJ 

Open access pre-print and publishing of life science research with annotation.

Cureus 

A free and open access the medical journal and a place for physicians to build a digital CV.

ScienceOpen 

Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.

The Winnower 

An open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review.

Paper repositories

ArXiv 

E-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.

biorXiv 

The preprint server for Biology.

F1000 

Leading biomedical experts helping scientists to discover, discuss and publish research.

Figshare 

Manage your research in the cloud and control who you share it with or make it publicly available and citable.

Peer Evaluation 

Open repository for data, papers, media coupled with an open review and discussion platform.

Peerage of Science 

Pre-publication peer review and publishing for scientific articles.

PeerJ PrePrints 

Pre-print repository for the biological and medical Sciences.

Support to publication

Cofactor 

The cofactor is a new company that helps scientists publish their research, with editing, training, and consultancy.

EditFox 

Quick and clever editing. Determined to rid the world of poor spelling and grammar – one document at a time.

Ediqo 

Expert English editing and manuscript preparation for publication in top English language journals.

Exec&Share 

Openly share the code and data that underlie your research publications.

Google Charts 

Create live and interactive charts in your browser.

RunMyCode 

Openly share the code and data that underlie your research publications.

ORCID  

Provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

Journal Reviews and Advisers

Edanz’s journal advisor 

A personal guide that recommends the tools and services you need to get published.

Journal Finder 

Elsevier’s service that helps you find journals that could be best suited for publishing your scientific article.

Journal Guide 

Find the best journal for your research.

Journal Reviewer 

Aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals’ review processes.

Journalysis 

A service for academic authors run by academic authors for reviewing experiences with academic journals.

RoMEO 

Find out publisher copyright and self-archiving policies.

SciRev 

Share your experience with the scientific review process and learn from others to decide where to submit your manuscripts.

Peer-review

Academic Karma  

Peer review and get peer reviewed faster.

Hypothes.is 

Sentence-level peer-review to provide commentary, references, and insight on top of the online content.

Labii 

A suite of web apps for researchers, including an online app for finding, commenting, rating research papers.

Peerage of Science 

Pre-publication peer review and publishing for scientific articles.

PeerJ 

Open access pre-print and publishing of life science research with annotation.

PubPeer 

Search for publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.

Publons 

Record, showcase and verify all your peer review activity.

Pubmed Commons 

Share opinions and information about scientific publications in PubMed.

ScienceOpen 

Freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.

SPapers 

Science Papers That Connect.

Wiki Journal Club 

Open, user-reviewed summaries of the top studies in medical research.

Wellcome Open Research 

A new way for Wellcome-funded researchers to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing.