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Authors' Rights: Publishing, Copyright, & You

A guide to resources for the "Publishing, Copyright, and You" Library Workshop

We all want to get published!

Most of us want to maintain some kind of control or rights over our own work. Most of us assume we can do anything with our own publications, like post them where we want, share them whenever and with whomever we want. We did the work so it's ours, isn't it?  Or at least, it's fair use because public posting or sharing your own published work is educational, isn't it?  


Search for topics similar to yours in Google Scholar. You might already be doing this for your literature review, but have you been looking closely at the journals these articles are published in? If you see a handful of journals that publish articles similar to your own work, these might be good to review for your own work.


Another useful tool for finding journal articles in your subject areas is Browzine. To start, type in a basic keyword related to your subject, like Physics, Philology, or Economics. Then, click on one of the responses with a red folder that appears in your results list: 

On the next page, you can browse the journals in that subject area or select another related subject to browse, like Economic Theory or International Economics

The final place you might consider looking to find journals is your own bibliography! As you've done research to inform your thesis or dissertation, you've pulled together a list of articles and other resources on topics similar to your own. The journals and publishers who supported those works will likely be a good fit for your research as well.

If you have noticed a particular journal mentioned multiple times in your research, be sure to add it to your list to evaluate in our next step!

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