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UAL: Unit for Academic Literacy: Publish Your Article

WHERE TO PUBLISH?

Ask your librarian for assistance before submitting your article.

LISTS OF ACCREDITED JOURNALS

Accredited journals lists 2024

Accredited journals are recognised academic journals which meet specified criteria and therefore qualify for subsidisation by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) . To receive subsidy or recognition for an article you have written, you should select an accredited journal from one of the lists below, or from the combined list found here.

Application process for inclusion of journals into accredited journal lists

The editor of a journal can apply for a journal to be included in a specific list, provided that journal complies with the policies of inclusion for that list.

Policies

PREDATORY and HIJACKED JOURNALS

"Predatory open-access publishing is an exploitative open-access academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not). The idea that they are "predatory" is based on the view that academics are tricked into publishing with them, though some authors may be aware that the journal is poor quality or even fraudulent." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishing

Hijacked Journals

"Hijacked journals are duplicate or fake websites of legitimate ones utilizing the title, ISSN and other information of the reputable journal. They are often created by a malicious third party for the purpose of fraudulently offering academicians the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee [1,2]".  [https://clarivate.com/blog/hijacked-journals-what-they-are-and-how-to-avoid-them/]

UPSPACE ~ OPEN ACCESS

Deposit the preprint copy of your article in the UPSpace Institutional Repository.

  • Register / Sign in and click on Submissions to upload your article.
  • Upload your thesis or dissertation here as well.

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Background Reading:

License choice

Content creators have the right to add a license note to it, to determine how it may be used and reused.

Please read the Creative Commons page entitled About CC Licences to see "The 6 different license types", listed from most to least permissive. (CC BY is the license recommended as it allows the most freedom)

Have a look at this video: Creative Commons Licenses Explanation on the 3-Minute Explanations Youtube channel.