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Biology: Journals

Work at home or on campus

You can access the e-resources via links in Subject guides or Oula-Finna.

On campuses, you can access e-materials by logging in to the university's online workstations or to the wireless Eduroam network with your Uni of Oulu username. Outside of campuses, you can access the university network using the VPN service or remote desktop.

E-materials can also be used from outside the university network as a remote user. Access via Oula-Finna or libguides.oulu.fi -pages.

Evaluating journals

Features of a reliable scientific journal include:

  • Referee, peer review.
  • Indexed in databases containing only high-quality peer-reviewed journals (Scopus, Web of Science). In some databases, it is possible to limit the search result to articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Articles published in the journal are cited a lot

More information about publication metrics:

Journal lists

You can browse all the journal titles available in Oula-Finna on page e-journals by subject.

There are several tools and services that aim to list, rank or evaluate journals.

 

E-journals and publishers with full text search

Newspapers

Open Access (OA) -publishing

A scientific publication is openly accessible when both the scholarly community and the general public have free and unrestricted access to it on the Internet.

Guide for open access-publishing.