Journal Finder
Royal Danish Library's Journal Finder helps you find journals that are covered by Open Access publishing agreements.
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Journal Finder is a search tool that helps you identify scholarly journals covered by Open Access publishing agreements negotiated by the Royal Danish Library. The search results indicate whether a journal is covered by an agreement that waives the full Article Processing Charge (APC*) or offers a discount on the publishing fee.
Journal Finder also provides key information about individual journals, including which article types are covered by the agreements, which Creative Commons licenses are available, and whether any article quotas apply.
You do not need to create an account or log in to use Journal Finder. Simply select your institution to view the journals covered by your institution's Open Access publishing agreements.
To support Open Science, the Royal Danish Library has decided that Journal Finder should also promote the visibility of Diamond Open Access journals**. The tool therefore includes nordic Diamond Open Access journals, including journals published by Danish research institutions.
*Article Processing Charge (APC) is a publication fee charged by Open Access journals to cover the costs of publishing an article.
**Diamond Open Access journals do not charge authors any publication fees. This means that both Open Access publishing and access to read the journal content are free of charge.
General search guide
As not all agreements apply to every institution, we recommend selecting your institution before performing a search. If you are affiliated with more than one institution, you can select multiple institutions.
You can search by journal title, ISSN/eISSN, subject, or free text. If you are looking for a specific journal, we recommend searching by its eISSN. You can also find additional search tips below under Advanced Search Guide.
Advanced Search Guide
Search guide by SciFree
Smart ranking
The search automatically prioritises the most relevant results. Exact journal titles always appear at the top.
Simple search
Enter any term to search across journal titles, subjects, imprints, and ISSN fields. The search automatically finds partial matches.
Note: Imprints are specific brand or trade names used by publishers to identify specific groups of journals.
Advanced Journal Title Searching / Exact phrases
Use quotes "" around phrases for exact matches. The quotation marks help to hold more than one term together.
Example: Searching for "Cell biology" finds only journals with this exact term.
Wildcard
If you are unsure of the spelling, use a ? as a wildcard to replace one character within a term to find results with different spellings.
Example: Searching for organi?ation finds journals with both spellings: organisation, organization.
Truncation
Use * to find all term variations.
Example: Searching for bio* finds biology, biotech, bioscience.
Boolean
If you would like to both widen or narrow your search, use AND to match terms.
Example: cell AND biology results match both terms.
Use OR for synonyms or related concepts.
Example: cell OR biology results match either of these terms, helping to expand the results found.
Use NOT to exclude terms from your search and remove unwanted results.
Example: cell NOT biology results match cell-related journals but exclude biology.
Other ways to browse
By default, advanced search queries use the field "Journals". To search inside other search fields, use these prefixes. The quotation marks help to hold more than one term together.
Type imprint: followed by the name.
Example: imprint:"imprint or publisher name"
Type subjects: followed by the topics.
Example: subjects:"Life Sciences"
Combine logic
Combine different advanced search techniques to create powerful queries. Use parentheses () to group logic within a specific field.
Example: subjects:(bio* AND life) AND NOT cell finds biology and life science journals, excluding any terms with "cell".
About Journal Finder
Journal Finder is developed by the Swedish company SciFree. The data in Journal Finder is continuously updated and maintained based on changes provided by publishers and verified by the Royal Danish Library's Licensing Service. The information retrieved through Journal Finder is intended for guidance only, and is subject to errors and changes.