InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies Submission

Call for Submissions:

OPEN REVIEW: Education and Information Studies

 

Submissions accepted until Friday, November 1, 2024

 

InterActions,UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies is an open access journal hosted by the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library based at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. The journal is edited and managed by graduate students representing some of the broad and diverse perspectives within the School of Education & Information Studies. Our publication’s authors foster an open and critical dialogue with readers and colleagues through applying social justice frameworks to the discussion of pressing issues in the fields of education and information.

 

Submit here: https://escholarship.org/uc/gseis_interactions 

 

This call is in alignment with our mission to support and assist graduate students and early career researchers go through the peer review process and get early work published. We are looking for submissions that center social justice and that are situated in one or more of the following areas:

 

-Higher Education & Organizational Change

-Human Development & Psychology

-Special Education, Disability, & Inclusion

-Social Research Methodology

-Social Sciences & Comparative Education

-Urban Schooling

-Educational Leadership

-Teacher Preparation

-Coaching and Leadership

-Archival Studies

-Informatics

-Library Studies

-Media Archival Studies

-Rare Books / Print and Visual Culture

-Information Studies

-Critical Library and Information Studies

-Knowledge Organization

InterActions is an open peer review online journal committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary and critical scholarship. This issue of InterActions will follow an open peer review format: that is, peers will know each other's name and the review system will welcome open, collaborative feedback in order to fully help authors and their work. Edited by students in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, the journal brings together senior and emerging scholars, activists, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory and practice. InterActions is published once annually with funding provided by the UCLA Graduate Students Association and the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

InterActions welcomes papers outlining (preliminary) results of research, methodological papers, theory, and other formats of scholarship, such as curriculum, class lesson plans, and so on. Please submit projects on eScholarship (all instructions and policies are in the submission workflow) by November 1, 2024 and email any questions to interactions@gseis.ucla.edu. 

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About

InterActions is an open access, open peer-reviewed journal hosted by the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library, edited and managed by graduate students, based at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Our publication’s authors foster an open and critical dialogue with readers and colleagues through applying diverse social justice frameworks to the discussion of pressing issues in the fields of education and information.

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Focus and Scope

Founded in 2004 by doctoral students from the UCLA GSE&IS, InterActions is an open peer-reviewed, open access journal committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary and inclusive scholarship. The journal brings together senior and emerging scholars, activists, educators, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory and practice. Our publication’s authors foster an open and critical dialogue with readers and colleagues through applying diverse social justice frameworks to the discussion of pressing issues in the fields of education and information. 

Copyright Notice

The following is an agreement between InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies (the Journal) and the submitter (the Author), governing the work currently being submitted, including the primary contribution as well as any supporting materials such as an abstract, data sets, media files, figures, or tables created by the Author and any co-authors (the Submission).

The Journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to readers or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

1. As consideration for publication in the Journal, the Author grants the Journal the following rights:
1.1. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to publish, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute the Work in perpetuity throughout the world in all means of expression by any method or media now known or hereafter developed; and
1.2. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to license others, including databases or printing vendors, to do any or all of the above on a non-exclusive basis.

2. The Author warrants that:
2.1. The Author is the author of the Submission, or is authorized to act on behalf of the author(s) and copyright holder (if different from the author(s)), and has the power to convey the rights granted in this agreement.
2.2. If the Submission has multiple authors, the other authors are identified in the Submission, and the Author will inform the other authors of the terms of this agreement.
2.3. Any textual, graphic or multimedia material included in the Submission that is the intellectual property or work of another is identified and cited in the Submission.
2.4. If the Submission reproduces any material that is the intellectual property of another, the Author has received permission to publish that material in the Submission, or the material is being incorporated based on an informed, reasonable, and good faith application of fair use.
2.5. The Submission is the original work of the Author(s). To the best of the Author’s knowledge, it does not contain matter that is obscene, libelous, or defamatory; it does not knowingly violate another’s right of privacy, right of publicity, or other legal right; does not contain false or misleading statements; and is otherwise not unlawful.
2.6. The Submission has not been previously published, and is not pending review elsewhere. If this is not the case, the Author will provide the Journal with information about the other locations where the Submission appears or is pending review. Prior distribution of a Submission, including on a preprint server or in a repository, does not disqualify a Submission from potential publication; the Journal is primarily concerned with other appearances in similar publications.
2.7. If the Author is a student, the Author agrees to share their work and waive any privacy rights granted by FERPA or any other law, policy or regulation, with respect to the Submission, for the purpose of publication. If the Author has any student co-authors, the Author will obtain a signed copy of this agreement from those co-authors.

3. Indemnification
The Author will indemnify and hold the Journal harmless against loss, damages, expenses, awards, and judgments arising from breach of any of the above warranties.

4. Author’s Rights and Obligations
4.1. Nothing in this agreement constitutes a transfer of the copyright by the Author. As such, the Author retains all rights not expressly granted herein, including but not limited to, the right:
    4.1.1. To reproduce and distribute the Submission, and to authorize others to reproduce and distribute the Submission, in any format;
    4.1.2. To post the Submission in an institutional repository or the Author’s personal or departmental web page.
    4.1.3. To include the Submission, in whole or in part, in another work.
    4.2. If the Author distributes the Submission on another website or in another publication (as described above), the Journal will be cited as the source of first publication.

5. Rights for Readers
The Journal and the Author agree that the Submission will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), or other later version of the same license, that allows others to copy, distribute, translate, adapt, and build upon the Submission, even commercially, as long as they provide appropriate credit to the author(s). Anyone who uses or redistributes the Submission under this license must indicate any changes that were made, must link to the license, and cannot imply that the author(s) endorse them or their use. More information about this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

6. Termination
The Author agrees to the terms of this agreement for the Submission being considered for publication. If the Submission is declined, this agreement is terminated.

Peer Review

InterActions is an open peer review online journal committed to the promotion of interdisciplinary and critical scholarship. The review system will welcome open, collaborative feedback in order to fully help authors and their work. Reviewers will be credited with reviews. Edited by students in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, the journal brings together senior and emerging scholars, activists, and professionals whose work covers a broad range of theory and practice. InterActions is published once annually with funding provided by the UCLA Graduate Students Association and the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

 

Submission Checklist

Before submitting you should read over the guidelines, then register an account (or login if you have an existing account).

Thank you for your interest in submitting to InterActions.

Length requirements

Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words. InterActions uses APA style citations.

  • Articles (up to 7,000 words)
  • Literature reviews (up to 5,000 words)
  • Interviews (up to 2,000 words)
  • Policy reports and research briefs (up to 2,000 words)
  • Book reviews & Exhibition reviews (up to 1,000 words)

Input Guidelines

The main text must be submitted as a stand-alone file (in Microsoft Word, TeX, or RTF) without a title page, abstract, page numbers, or other headers or footers. Text should be single spaced in 12 pt. Times New Roman. Tables and figures should be included in-line with text, not at the end or as separate files. The title, abstract, and author information should be input according to the directions on this site. All submissions, except for book reviews, must include an abstract before they will be considered for review.

You can view a copy of our style guide and additional APA guidelines here.

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

  • CC BY 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Sections

Section or article type

Public Submissions

Peer Reviewed

Indexed

Open Letters

Articles

Research Briefs

Literature Reviews

Interviews

Book Reviews

Exhibition Reviews

Reports

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