CCHS Humanities and Social Sciences Journals open access policies and impact search engine.

Abstract

The CSIC open access mandate published in April 2019 reflects the institution's commitment to make available to the national and international scientific community, freely and openly, the publications of its researchers and the research data associated with them. This new requirement forces the researcher to consider, before publishing, where to publish, taking into account both the editorial policy of journals and publishers regarding open access, as well as their impact and assessment in the different evaluation platforms. With the aim of facilitating this active search for publications that meet the requirements of the CSIC and the wishes of the authors, the Tomás Navarro Tomás Library of the CCHS considered it necessary to develop a tool that would allow searching the impacts and open access editorial policies of humanities and social sciences journals (HHCCSS). The library has taken advantage of the confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic to give a final push to this tool and have it completed and tested by the summer of 2020.