Instructions for creating an embeddable journal search tool

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Authors: Danny Smith
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Abstract

These instructions describe a way of creating an embeddable search tool that allows users to search an underlying spreadsheet of journal titles; a working version of the tool built by a different author using these instructions and code is available here: https://libguides.greatermanchester.ac.uk/researchers/publishing-dissemination/publishing. As well as instructions, also included here are the two pieces of code that are required to set up the tool. The idea behind this prototype version of the tool was to provide researchers with a simple search tool, embedded within their institution's webpages, to discover journals in which they can publish on an Open Access basis without paying fees/paying reduced fees, as the journals contained in the underlying spreadsheet are covered by a publishing agreement that their institution is participating in. However, the longer term ambition was that the tool could be adapted for a wide variety of purposes depending on the contents of the underlying spreadsheet of journal data, for example, to highlight: Diamond Open Access journals, such as by integrating with the Diamond Discovery Hub (https://ddh.edch.eu/en) journals that are compliant with an institutional or funder policy journals that have strong Open Science policies, such as those that mandate Open Data, or publish a particular type of output e.g. Registered Reports, etc.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Academic Publishing and Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Communication Library Science and Information

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
28 January 2026
Language
EN