Choosing Journals

This section of the bulletin board is for use by authors who want to get additional information about journals–their focus, reviewers, typical timelines, and general standing in the field, for example

Standards for Publications

Reviewers and editors often have to make decisions about what is an acceptable level of information or rigor needed to justify publication and what scientific standards we should hold so that the social work literature can have maximum impact. This thread could forward such discussions.

Reviewer Reflections, Qualitative Review Issues

This thread is for discussion of author and reviewer issues regarding reviews of qualitative and mixed-methods papers.

Reviewer Reflections, Quantitative Review Issues

This thread is for ideas, observations, and queries related to writing or reviewing quantitative or mixed-methods articles.

Copyright Resources

Many universities and faculty are concerned that publishers restrict their ability to quote their own material or to post it on their own websites. This is a concern in Ohio and Ohioans have addressed this in the following document which ends with a template for requesting the return of copyright to authors.

Important Links:
OhioLINK Library Community Recommendations on Retention of Intellectual Property Rights For Works Produced by Ohio Faculty and Students
(Approved by OhioLINK Governing Board May 2006)

Author Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the author of a journal article
(PDF Version)