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Author Guidelines

While we do not suggest a maximum (or minimum) page length for articles, please provide advance notice to the editors if your submission will be in excess of 50 pages.

Article manuscripts should follow the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition, 2001.

Examples for specific types of items:

Book: Willinsky, J. (2006). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Article in periodical (electronic version): Davis, P.M., & Connolly, M.J.L. (2007). Institutional repositories: Evaluating the reasons for non-use of Cornell University's installation of DSpace. D-Lib Magazine, 13(3/4). Retrieved March 10, 2007, from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march07/davis/03davis.html

Article in print periodical: Davis, H.M., & Vickery, J.N. (2007). Datasets, a shift in the currency of scholarly communication: Implications for library collections and acquisitions. Serials Review, 33(1), 26-32.

Article in newspaper: Vergano, D. (2004, August 30). Scientists want research papers freely available. USA Today, pp. 15B.

Article in an edited book: Hockey, S. (2004). The history of humanities computing. In S. Schriebman, R. Siemens & J. Unsworth (Eds.), A companion to digital humanities (pp. 3-19). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Article in published proceedings: Crawford, W. (2006). Is free too expensive? Open access and libraries. In R. Bazirjian, V. Speck & B.R. Bernhardt (Eds.), Charleston Conference Proceedings 2004 (pp. 80-86). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Doctoral dissertation abstracted in Dissertation Abstracts International: Halbert, M. (2006). New models for research libraries in the digital age (Doctoral dissertation, Emory University, 2006). Dissertation Abstracts International, 67, 760.

Unpublished doctoral dissertation or master's theses: Möller, A.M. (2006). The case for open access publishing, with special reference to open access journals and their prospects in South Africa. Unpublished master's thesis, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

Electronic thesis or dissertation: Lerner, P.A. (1997). On the value of transmission systems under open access: Incentives for investment. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Retrieved March 15, 2007, from DSpace at MIT: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10522

Website: Open Society Institute. (2002, February 12). Budapest Open Access Initiative. Retrieved March 15, 2007, from http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

Post on a weblog: Velterop, J. (2007, March 4). Mandate debate. The parachute. Retrieved March 8, 2007, from http://theparachute.blogspot.com/2007/03/mandate-debate.html

Message posted to an electronic mailing list: Peters, P. (2007, February 21). Hindawi completes its OA journal transition. Message posted to SPARC-OAForum, archived at https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/3626.html

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. You have obtained permission for any copyrighted material that is used in the submission.
  3. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or ODT document file format.
  4. When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://ojs.gsu.edu/index.php/oar).
  5. The submission includes an abstract of 100-150 words, highlighting the purpose, scope, methods, and conclusions of the article.
  6. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; and employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).
  7. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  8. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  9. All illustrations, figures, and tables are of appropriate size; are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end; are numbered in sequence with Arabic numerals; and are clearly identified with a caption.
  10. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to include research instruments as appendices.
 

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