Publishing support

Before publishing the results of research and development, you can use various information and tools:

1. First, you will need to find appropriate journals or do a research on the topic in your field of study. For that you will need the resources and databases, which the university has a subscription to.
2. When deciding which journal to publish in, you can use publishers journal search tool.
3. When creating your article you can use available citation managers to manage citations according to publishers requirements or spell checker for your text.
4. Before your research, and especially within the projects, you will want to familiarize yourself with the ethics of publishing and the ethics documents accepted by the university.
5. Finding the journal metrics (for example for the Open Access fund)

Tools for finding a suitable journal to publish

The tools will search for relevant journals in a specific field, then you need to check the focus of the journal and look at the articles that the journal publishes. To find a suitable journal, you need to prepare:

• the title of the article in English
• keywords in English
• possibly a short abstract in English

• Elsevier Journal Finder
• Springer Journal Suggester
• Taylor Francis Journal Suggester
• Wiley Journal Finder - search by research fields

Databases to check journal metrics

You can use databases to find journal metrics, which are used for comparison of the journals in the different research fields:

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  Journal Citation Reports

  Metrics of journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection database.

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  Scimago Journal Rank

  Metrics of journals indexed in Scopus database.

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  Information on journal metrics

  Information and guides.

Ethics in publishing

The main principles of publishing the results of research and development are given in the main documents:

• Code of Conduct for employees, students and graduates of Mendel University in Brno
• Declaration of the Research Integrity Assurance Policy at Mendel University in Brno
• Integrity and ethics in research
• Informed consent
• Consent to the processing of personal data

Publishing open access publications at the university

Open Access publications published at MENDELU are available on the website: doi.mendelu.cz. Authors can publish in MENDELU University Press online publication of the type:

• monographs
• methodology
• map

• Online Proceedings

  Guidelines for editors of proceedings.

• Instructions for authors

  Guidelines for monographs and proceedings

• I want to publish a publication

  Request for publication

• Open Access publications (online) will be assigned an eISBN identifier, DOI, and a Creative Commons public license. Assigning DOIs to online publications at MENDELU: uvis.mendelu.cz/doi.
• Open Access publications can be added in the university's open repository. There are increasing requests from grant providers to have open access publications in the repository. If you would like to add published Open Access publications in the repository, we can help you: repozitar@mendelu.cz.
• Journals published at MENDELU: uvis.mendelu.cz/vydavane-casopisy.