Policies
Review Policy
Information for Authors
- Who Can Submit?
- General Submission Rules
- Formatting Requirements
Other Policies
Peer Review Process
The peer review process is double-blind. Scholarly manuscripts are reviewed by at least two reviewers who will provide recommendations to the journal editor for publication. Reviewers' comments are made available to authors. If revisions are recommended, authors are strongly encouraged to revise the paper accordingly and note in detail how each suggestion was addressed in a separate attachment.
Information for Authors
Who Can Submit?
Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Educational Considerations provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).
Please note Educational Considerations has no article processing or submission charges.
General Submission Rules
Educational Considerations has no submission, processing or publication charges. Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Educational Considerations, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Educational Considerations. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Educational Considerations, please contact the editors.
Formatting Requirements
Educational Considerations has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. The American Psychological Association (APA) Manual of Style, 7th edition, is the editorial style required. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for complete details.
Where available, DOIs (digital object identifiers) for citations must be provided and hotlinked in the Word document. As a member of CrossRef, our publisher, New Prairie Press, is required to include DOIs. Use the free DOI lookup on CrossRef's website to check your citations.
Copyright Notice
New Prairie Press recommends the use of the Creative Commons license. The Educational Considerations requires authors to agree to Creative Commons Attribution and Non-commercial licenses. Authors who publish with the Educational Considerations agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. This license is automatically assigned to articles upon publication.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
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.
Archival Policy
Contents of the Journal are archived for perpetual access through New Prairie Press' participation in CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and Portico and managed through the Digital Commons Publishing platform. New Prairie Press also participates in LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). Once published, the contents are never changed.
General Terms and Conditions of Use
Users of the New Prairie Press website and/or software agree not to misuse the New Prairie Press service or software in any way.
The failure of New Prairie Press to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between New Prairie Press and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.
