Faculty Publishing: A Guide for Publishing, Tenure Review, and Promotion  

Tracking down cited references, finding journal acceptance rates and locating data to judge the prestige of a journal can be difficult.

A librarian is available to assist you. Contact one directly or schedule an appointment for in-depth research assistance. You may choose to meet with a librarian in-person  or by telephone. This appointment service is available Monday-Friday.

Deciding Where to Publish

The Library offers many resources to help you in deciding where to submit your work for publication.  

• Serials Directory, a Library Database, offers comprehensive information on U.S. and international periodicals, including description, where indexed and abstracted, publisher, frequency, price, and more.

• Also particularly useful is the Library Database Cabell's Journal Directories which offer acceptance rates for journals in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Health Administration,  Nursing and Education.
  
  
• Consider publishing your work in an Open Access repository or journal.  Go to the Author's Rights/Open Access tab or the DigitalCommons@Fairfield tab to learn more.

For more guidance please go to the Journals: Acceptance Rates tab

  To gather data on the prestige of a journal go to the Journals: Impact and Immediacy Factors tab

 Determining Impact of your Scholarship

You've been published -congratulations!  Now what? You will want to determine what impact your published works are having, especially in your field.

Please go to the Cited Reference Searching tab to learn more.