Open Science Tools

B!SON is a free recommendation service for publishing in open-access journals. It can be used directly in a browser and does not require registration. Researchers can enter a manuscript’s title, abstr…

The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is one of the largest search machines in the world for content from Open Access repositories. BASE includes over 270 million documents of over 8,000 data su…

CWTS Journal Indicators is a bibliometric tool. It aims to provide researchers with insights into the scientific impact of more than 20,000 research journals. The indicators have been calculated by Le…

DINI (German) certifies Open Access publication services in Germany. The directory of institutional and specialist repositories is a good starting point for German-speaking researchers if they are loo…

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) contains over 40,000 scholarly OA books. They have undergone peer review. A detailed search can be used to narrow down the results. DOAB also contains textboo…

It’s useful to consult the Journal Checker Tool (JCT) to help in the selection of a journal. The tool is a search machine that checks whether a journal complies with the Open Access policy of the fund…

The Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) is the successor to the International Journal for Re-views in Empirical Economics (IREE). It aims to become the leading journal in economic…

Matilda is an open academic search engine aiming to make references and citation data as usable as Open Access scholarly texts and datasets. By treating academic documents and their metadata equally i…

The Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) is hosted by the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. It also contains over 50,000 economics publications from all over the world. These normally come from in…

The Open Access Books Toolkit informs authors about how Open Access works for books and provides support for publishing.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) is primarily a full text repository for Open Access books. It promotes the transition to Open Access for scientific books. To do this it provides op…

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a coalition of publishers who offer Open Access as a business model. They include major commercial publishers such as Springer and Wiley as …

The platform Open Edition offers not only Open Access to books, but also to journals and blogs from the humanities and social sciences. Open Edition journals lists journals from the humanities and soc…

Open Research Europe is an Open Access publication platform for the publication of results from EU-funded projects from the research funding programmes Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. The platform co…

SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that contains scientific rankings for journals and countries. These rankings can be used to evaluate and analyse scientific fields. For example, journals…

SciRev helps you choose a journal for submitting your manuscripts by comparing publication speeds, peer review quality and other journal statistics. You can search for a journal with a quick review pr…

SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is a website and document server for the rapid dissemination of research papers. An interdisciplinary service, it covers the entire social sciences. In terms of …

VHB-Rating (previous version: VHB-JOURQUAL3) is a rating of relevant journals in business studies on the basis of decisions by members of the German Academic Association of Business Research (Verband …