Thanks to Journal Info

I have just discovered Journal Info from the University of Lund which lists ca 18,000 journals. From the FAQ:

Real Answers to real questions about Journal Info.

What is the purpose of the service?
The purpose is to provide an aid for the researcher in the selection of journal for publication. The publication market has continuously grown more and more complex. It is important to weigh in facts like scope and quality, but more recently also information about reader availability and library cost. The Lund University Libraries have made an attempt to merge all there items into one tool, giving the researcher the power to make informed choices.
 
How many journals are a part of the service?
The service currently covers about 18,000 journals. It is discussed to add additional journals later this year.
 
 
 
 
What is the reason to the X’s and tick marks? What do they mean?
Some of the information is rather hard to interpret. Is a price high or low? Is a impact score reasonable or of concern? In an attempt to assist the researcher, we gather all the data for each general subject and give a green tick to the 50% best and a red cross to the 50% worse. We hope this can be a useful feature.
 
 
 

This is going to be very useful in our study of scientific journals and publishers. I would like to ask questions like “Does Wiley publish any chemistry journals which support hybrid OA?” [Hybrid OA is where the author of a paper pays the publisher so that non-subscribers can read the paper, whereas they cannot read the other papers in the journal]. JInfo lists all the journals that provide hybrid OA. That would be very useful if we could search the info.
JInfo also makes all this information available under CC-BY-NC. Excellent. Is it possible to download the whole database?

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