Education Research

How to Assess a Journal from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries provides a handy graphic to navigating the the scholarly communications landscape. 

Identifying Deceptive Publishers: A Checklist. Refer to this nationally recognized document from the University of Toronto when you want to verify the reputation of a journal you are evaluating.

The Scholarly Communication Toolkit from the Association of College & Research Libraries (U.S.) gives sound advice for determining journal quality. Use the ACRL's THINK, CHECK, SUBMIT checklist.

Directory of Open Access Journals. DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Beall's List of Predatory ​Journals and Publishers.  A (somewhat dated) list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers.

Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. These principles were compiled by 4 scholarly organizations concerned with promoting high quality open access publications.

Ulrichsweb.com, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on journals, magazines, newspapers, and other serials published throughout the world.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

JCR summarises citations from more than 10,000 journals and proceedings in the sciences and social sciences indexed in the Web of Science database.  By compiling articles' cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.