Editorial resources

Search engines, data bases, search facilitators

• Google. http://www.google.com/
• Google Scholar. http://scholar.google.com/
• Scopus. http://www.info.scopus.com/
• EdNA Distributed Search. http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/search?SearchMode=distributed
• AltaVista - The Search Company. http://www.altavista.com/
• Search Engine Watch. http://searchenginewatch.com/
• ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center. http://www.eric.ed.gov/
• ERIC. Journals indexed ERIC.
  http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=JournalPage&logoutLink=false
• EBSCO Publishing. Education Research Complete: Database Coverage List. http://www.epnet.com/titleLists/eh-coverage.htm
• Educational Research Abstracts (Taylor & Francis). Journals covered. http://www.tandf.co.uk/era/covered.html
• Thomson ISI. Journal lists. http://scientific.thomson.com/mjl/
• CrossRef. http://www.crossref.org/ - a collaborative reference linking service.
• getCITED: Academic research, citation reports and discussion lists. http://www.getcited.org/
• CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers. http://www.citeulike.org/
• Online Education Database. http://oedb.org/

Software

• Open Journal Systems. PKP @ SFU. Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University Library.
• Aries Systems: Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager. http://www.editorialmanager.com/
• The Berkeley Electronic Press. Open access publication tools. Submission and editorial management services http://www.bepress.com/allservices.html
• The MyReview System. Open source, web based paper submission and review. http://myreview.lri.fr/
• StopBadware. http://www.stopbadware.org/

Finding addresses

• Country-Code Top-Level Domains. IANA Repository of TDL (Top Level Domain) IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names).
• College and University Home Pages. Geographical listing.
• Braintrack - Online University Directory.
• Teaching Centers. University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence.
• Teaching & Learning Centers in the United States. CTSE, Hofstra University, New York.

Catalogues of online journals

• ACER: Australian Education Index Core Journals
• National Library of Australia: Australian Journals Online
• Australian Government Education Portal. Electronic Publications and Journals. http://www.education.gov.au/goved/browse/0,15500,15503,15621,5970
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
• AERA Communication of Research SIG: Open Access Journals in the Field of Education.
  http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
• AERA Research Use SIG: Online Education Research Resources. http://www.sigru.org/resources.htm
• Open J-Gate, by Informatics (India) Ltd. http://openj-gate.com/AboutOpenJgate.asp
• Directory of Open Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org/. Education: http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=127
• Advanced Learning Technology Journals. TENC (The European Network for Competence).
• Wikipedia. Category:Journals by subject area. See also AJET entry.

Subscription agency services

• DA Information Services. http://www.dadirect.com/
• EBSCO Home Page. http://www-au.ebsco.com/home/default.asp
• Scholarly Publications Inc, Texas. http://www.scholarlypublications.com/
• Swets Information Services. http://informationservices.swets.com/

Style, technical, copyright, and other guides and services

• ACM: Journal Editors' Manual. Association for Computing Machinery. http://www.acm.org/pubs/editors_manual.html
• Australian Copyright Council. http://www.copyright.org.au/
• The Adelphi Charter - Criteria for copyright, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property in the 21st Century. http://www.adelphicharter.org/
• APA Style Homepage. http://www.apastyle.org/
• Copyright Act 1968. Commonwealth Consolidated Acts. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/
• DEST (Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia). Higher Education Research Data Collection. http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/research_sector/online_forms_services/higher_education_research_data_collection.htm
• Australian Government Education Portal. Academic/Scholarly Publishing. http://www.education.gov.au/goved/browse/0,15500,15503,15621,25039
• ISBN Agency Australia. http://www.thorpe.com.au/isbn/
• Murdoch University. Guides to Citation Styles.
• National Library of Australia. Services for publishers.
• National Library of Australia. Pandora Archive - Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
• Unicode. http://www.unicode.org/. See also Penn State TLT: Computing with Accents and Symbols.
• Web Accessibility Network for Australian Universities. http://www.wanau.org/
• Harnack, A. and Kleppinger, E. (2001). Online! A reference guide to using Internet sources. New York: Bedford/St Martins. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/
• W3C HTML Validation Service. http://validator.w3.org/
• Committee on Publication Ethics, UK. http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/

Open access: General

• AEShareNet. "... an [Australian] online service for trading and sharing of training materials and for streamlining the management of intellectual property for educational organisations." http://www.aesharenet.com.au/
• Atkinson, R. (2006). The copyright times they are a-changin'. HERDSA News, 28(1). http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/atkinson-mcbeath/roger/pubs/herdsa-newslet28-1.html
• Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/
• eprints.org http://www.eprints.org/ "...dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving".
• Public Knowledge Project. http://pkp.ubc.ca/. "...a federally funded research initiative located at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through innovative online environments..."
• SPARC. http://www.arl.org/sparc/. "...the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations. The coalition was an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) started in 1997 to be a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system. These dysfunctions have reduced dissemination of scholarship and crippled libraries..."
• Bailey, C. W. (2006). Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries. http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html. Continued at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

Open access: Repositories

• ARROW Project: Australian Research Repositories Online to the World. http://www.arrow.edu.au/
• Australasian Digital Theses Program - CAUL. http://adt.caul.edu.au/
• OAK Law Project: Open Access to Knowledge. http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au /
• Open Archives Initiative. http://www.openarchives.org/
• SHERPA. "...developing open-access institutional repositories...[UK]. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/.
  Includes Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving.
• California Digital Library. http://www.cdlib.org/. University of California.

Advice for authors: Some open access articles

• Darves, B. (undated). Submitting academic papers for publication in medical journals. http://www.nejmjobs.org/resource_center/Medical_Journals.asp
• Day, A. (2001). How to write publishable papers. Bradford, UK: Emerald. http://puck.emeraldinsight.com/vl=531173/cl=20/nw=1/rpsv/literaticlub/authors/howtowrite.htm
• Hewlett, K. (2002). How to publish your journal paper: Understanding the nuances of the process smooths the publishing ride. Monitor on Psychology, 33(8). http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep02/publish.html
• Klingner, J. K., Scanlon, D. and Pressley, M. (2005). How to publish in scholarly journals. Educational Researcher, 34(8), 14-20. http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3408/02ERv34n8_Klingner.pdf
• Niederhauser, D.S., Wetzel, K. & Lindstrom, D. L. (2004). From manuscript to article: Publishing educational technology research. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 4(2). http://www.citejournal.org/vol4/iss2/editorial/article1.cfm
• Smith, R. (2001). The inside view on writing for medical journals. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/talks/wjournal/
• Sprague, D. (2006). Defining education research: Continuing the conversation. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 14(3), 431-439. [republished] http://www.citejournal.org/vol6/iss1/editorial/article1.cfm

Advice for reviewers: Some open access articles

• Glass, R.L. (2000). A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper. Journal of Systems and Software, 54(1), 1-82. http://www.geocities.com/dpodea/letter.html
• Pannell, D.J. (2002). Prose, psychopaths and persistence: Personal perspectives on publishing, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 50(2), 101-116. http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/dpannell/prose.htm
• Smith, A. J. (1990). The task of the referee. IEEE. http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_transactions/transactions/tpami/freecontent/taskoftheferee.pdf
• Wikipedia. Peer review. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review

Some publishers

• Blackwell Publishers http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/. Includes British Journal of Educational Technology.
• Common Ground. http://commongroundpublishing.com/
• CSIRO Publishing http://www.publish.csiro.au/
• EBSCO Publishing http://www.epnet.com/
• Emerald http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
• The Free Library Social Sciences: Education publications. Includes Australian Journal of Education, International Journal on E-Learning, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Journal of Technology and Teacher Education.
• HighWire Press. http://highwire.stanford.edu/
• International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP). http://www.icaap.org/
• James Nicholas Publishers http://www.jamesnicholaspublishers.com.au/
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching). http://www.merlot.org/
• Pearson Education Australia. http://www.pearsoned.com.au/
• Reed Elsevier. http://www.reed-elsevier.com/. Elsevier. http://www.elsevier.com/
• RMIT Publishing. http://www.rmitpublishing.com.au/
• SAGE. http://www.sagepub.co.uk/
• Taylor & Francis Group http://www.tandf.co.uk/ (includes Carfax, E& F N Spon and Routledge)
• Thomson Learning Australia. http://www.thomsonlearning.com.au/
• University of Toronto Press Journals Division http://www.utpjournals.com/

calls made to this page since 30 Sep 2002. Last revision: 20 July 2008.