In Savonia, we always aim at openness in publishing. If a publisher doesn't publish openly, you should be able to self-archive your publication if possible. This should be agreed in a publishing agreement. Usually, publishers allow you to self-archive an accepted version without final layout (post print/final draft/accepted article/author's accepted manuscript etc.). They can sometimes set a time limit (embargo) before open access is permitted. This isn't a problem when saving your article into Justus because the date of publication can be preset.
There is a wide range of journals which don't fill the criteria for good, scientific publication. These so called predatory journals search for authors by email and are mainly interested in your potential publication fee. Journal's publication and editorial information are worth checking. If these are imperfect and suspicious, try to offer your article somewhere else.
You can find lists of predatory journals online. See for example Beall's list.
Publication forum JUFO is a classification of publication channels created by the Finnish scientific community to support the quality assessment of academic research. Because publishing practices in different disciplines vary, forum includes journals, series, conferences, and book publishers. The peer-reviewed publication channels are divided into three levels.
1 = basic
2 = leading
3 = top
Here you can easily check what is its level.
The coordinator of Publication Forum is Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Evaluation of publications is made by 23 panels and 250 academics in the different fields.
Savonia is a member of FinELib Consortium. FinELib's licence agreements for scholarly journals include open access benefits. In our case, these concern Science Direct and SAGE Premier. The benefits enable the corresponding authors to publish their articles openly, either free of article processing charges or with a discounted price. Be aware, that there may be only a limited number of free open access articles per year.
You can see self-archiving policies of publishers in Jisc's open policy finder. There you can also find out whether a journal is open or not.