Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement will focus on how theories and practices can inform and improve such partnerships, connections, and collaborations. Studies co-authored by faculty, students, and/or community partners; or examining practices across disciplines or campuses; or exploring international networks are all encouraged.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Editors
  • Tracy Espy, Pfeiffer University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Editors
  • Tracy Espy, Pfeiffer University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Invited Articles

Editors
  • Tracy Espy, Pfeiffer University
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Peer review of manuscripts begins immediately after submission. The editor is responsible for determining that the submission falls within the scope of the journal and contains no identifying information in the file. After this is verified, two members of the Editorial Board, comprised of experts in the field, are given electronic access to the submission. Reviewers are expected to complete their evaluation within eight weeks. As part of the evaluation process, these reviewers suggest whether the manuscripts are accepted with no revisions, accepted with revisions, or rejected. Articles accepted with revisions are returned to the author with reviewers' comments, revised, and resubmitted to the review process. Editors work with the author once the article has been accepted to copyedit the manuscript, and journal staff layout the article.

 

Publication Frequency

Journal articles will be published collectively on an issue basis. The journal's first year (volume) will include two issues, scheduled to be published in the spring and fall of 2009. In subsequent years, the expectation is that the journal will gradually increase the number of issues published as the quality and quantity of submissions allows.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal is an open access journal. We use the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access: "free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."

Open access ensures that the research conducted in partnership with our communities is also then freely and broadly available to those communities. Philosophically, this fits with the spirit of civic engagement, while practically, it allows the broadest readership and greatest impact for our work.

 


Partnerships is sponsored by North Carolina Campus Compact, and hosted by Appalachian State University.
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