Guide to evaluation based on scientific publishing : Evaluating journals
Internet sources must be critically evaluated, taking in consideration information reliability, permanence of source, availability of the document and copyrights.
Instructions on how to evaluate Internet sources:
Making a citation alert means that you will be automatically kept up-to-date when a certain article or a particular researcher has been cited.
Use the tools listed below to find terminology related to your subject area. More about finding search terms in Finding scientific information
ChatGPT, Copilot, and similar AI tools can help you find good keywords for your search. Please note, however, that they do not replace the need to familiarise oneself with the terminology used by researchers and experts in the field, see AI tools in information searching: GenAI – ChatGPT, Copilot
Try searching for journal articles with the following useful tools:
Store your references with a reference manager. You can use the reference manager to:
Reference management software enables you to:
About parallel publishing (or self archiving) on Open Access publishing guide.
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.
You can browse e-journals by subject in Oula-Finna.
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal contains ranking lists by subject for publications (journals, conference proceedings, books) included in the Scopus database. Lists can be sorted according to different indicators.
Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows the evaluation and comparison of journals using citation data drawn from over 10000 scholarly and technical journals included in the Web of Science -database. Journals are divided into over 200 categories by subject.