Student Journals & Conferences

This post provides some resources for student journals and conferences: 

• The Undergraduate Journals & Conferences Directory (UJCD) is a frequently updated resource encouraging undergraduate scholarship in the US. Journals and conferences are grouped into subject categories. Several articles in favor and against the use of undergraduate journals are published on the website.

As the administrator states, the website is up-to-date as long as its journals are, and therefore it is up to students to double-check the information regarding the particular journal/conference. Some journals are more reliable than others; some have an ISSN, others don't despite the fact that they are peer-reviewed. Note that some journals accept articles only if students belong to the respective department/facullty/university hosting the journal and/or if they are currently undergraduates. Others are more open and encourage submissions by international students and/or by students/researchers who might not be pursuing an undergraduate degree at the moment. Depending on the journal, different forms of writing and art may be submitted - papers, essays, photography, cartoons, poetry, posters and abstracts. 

• UJCD recommends the Journal of Young Investigators.  

• Student Journals hosted by Berkeley Press Digital Commons should also be considered. 

• Generally, student journals can be found by generating a search (using keywords such as 'student journal'; 'undergraduate journal', etc.) in the open access journal directories DOAJ, Open J-Gate and JURN.  

• Calls for papers (cfp) for student journals and conferences are published on scholarship websites. To give some examples, Caleidoscop and H-Net are great resources for cfp, events, funding in the humanities and social sciences; EMBO lists conference grants in the life sciences and Luchsinger Mathematics is a great database for mathematics, computer science, life sciences, medicine and chemistry, physics and engineering. Use subscription option (email, rss) to stay current.