Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Scholarly and Research Communication is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, Open Access, online journal that publishes original contributions to the understanding of production, dissemination, and usage of knowledge. It emphasizes the dynamics of representation and changing organizational elements, including technologically mediated workflows, ownership, and legal structures. Contributions are welcomed in all media and span formal research and analysis; technical reports and demonstration; commentary, and review.

 

Section Policies

Editorial Article

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Articles

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Technical Reports

SRC looks for technical reports that have a wide implication for scholarly communication, outlining a technical approach conceptually to a workable technical solution related to online journal publication. The article should provide the foundations, limitations, and recommendations of research, with a call for public comment and scrutiny.

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Commentary

Commentaries are not original research but are an informed analysis of a critical issue, encompassing a broad set of initiatives in scholarly and research communication.

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Media Reviews

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Peer Review Process

Each submitted manuscript is evaluated on the following basis:

  • the originality of its contribution to the field of scholary and research communication;
  • the soundness of its theory and methodology given the topic;
  • the coherence of its analysis;
  • its ability to communicate to readers (grammar and style).

Normal turn-around time for evaluation of manuscripts is four to six months from the date of receipt.

 

Publication Frequency

The Journal of Scholarly and Research Communication will publish articles occassionaly, working toward quarterly publication.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Founding Editorial Team

Rowland Lorimer, Professor & Director, CCSP (Chair)
Heather Morrison, BC Electronic Library Network, SFU
Richard Smith, Professor & Director, CPROST, SFU
Leslie Chan, Director, Bioline International, & Senior Lecturer U of T, Scarborough
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor, Stanford University
Michael Eberle Sinatra, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal
Ray Siemens, Professor & Canada Research Chair, University of Victoria
Lynn Copeland, University Librarian, Simon Fraser University
Brian Owen, Associate Librarian, Simon Fraser University
Alec Smecher, Technical Architect, PKP, SFU Libraries
James MacGregor, PKP Associate, SFU Libraries
MJ Suhonos, Systems Librarian, SFU Libraries
Mark Jordan, Head of Library Sysems, SFU Libraries
Juan Pablo Alperin, Researcher & Systems Developer, PKP, SFU Libraries
Kevin Stranack, PKP Associate, SFU Libraries
Tarek Lubani, Associate Editor & Technica Advisor, Open Medicine

 

International Editorial Board

Subbiah Arunachalam, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Guylaine Beaudry, University of Montréal
Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Carroll, Villanova University of Law
Ana Maria Cetto, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
Thierry Chanier, Université de Franche-Comté
Sely M.S. Costa, University of Brasilia
Marc Couture, Télé-université (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Raym Crow, SPARC, Association of Research Libraries
Marin Dacos, CNRS-EHESS-Université de Provence-Université d’Avignon
Pina D’Agostino, Osgoode Law School
Anita de Waard, Utrecht University
Samuel Smith Esseh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Gustavo Fischman, Arizona State University
Anne Fitzgerald, OAK Law Project, Queensland University of Technology
Brian Fitzgerald, OAK Law Project, Queensland University of Technology
Frederick Friend, Joint Information Systems Committee
Gabrielle Gardiner, University of Technology Sydney
Michael Geist, University of Ottawa
Jean-Claude Guedon, University of Montreal
Stevan Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal
Tony Hey, University of Southampton/Microsoft
Eberhard Hilf, Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg
Martin Holmes, University of Victoria
Michael Jensen, The National Academies Press Lorena Kanellopoulos, Australian National Unversity ePress
Muchugu Kiiru, University of Nairobi
Donald W King, University of Pittsburgh
Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia
Michael Kurtz, Harvard University
Derek Law, University of Strathclyde
Fides Lawton, University of Technology Sydney
Eduardo Aguado López, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
John Maxwell, Simon Fraser University
Enyinna Nwauche, Rivers University of Nigeria
Fritz Pannekoek, Athabasca University
Arthur Sale, University of Tasmania
Stuart Shieber, Harvard University
Peter Suber, Earlham College
Damtew Teferra, Boston College
David Solomon, Michigan State University
Colin Steele, Emeritus Fellow at Austrialian National University
Alma Swan, Director of Key Perspectives Ltd
Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Gavin Yamey, Public Library of Science

 

Copyright

SRC embraces online publishing and open access to back issues under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Licence. This license allows users to download an article and share it with others as long as authorship and original publication is acknowledged and a link is made (in electronic media) to the original article. The article can be quoted but not changed and presented differently.