Since 2006, the McMaster University Library has supported the publication of faculty and student journals. In 2014, the Library decided to move this publication activity from a U.S.-based vendor to its own data centre. The migration to Open Journal Systems--a well known journal publication suite developed by the Public Knowledge Project with Canadian funding and now guided by Simon Fraser University--opens up many new possibilities for publishing journals that adapt as publication standards and practices evolve. It also ensures that the publications are based on a sustainable and scalable model that the Library can support decades into the future.
Our primary task is to facilitate journal publication for faculty and students at McMaster University, but the nature of scholarly publishing entails supporting scholars well beyond our campus as well. We welcome the participation of scholars from around the world in the journals we host.
MULPress (formerly Escarpment Press) is committed to the principles of Open Access. Moving forward, we will only support journals that employ an open access business model, although we will continue indefinitely to support those currently in our list that use a hybrid model. We strongly discourage our journals from using article processing charges (APCs); while APCs can be a viable transitional funding model for an open access journal, they engender some negative outcomes and practices. To best support journals that choose open access, we do not charge for our publishing services but rather consider them to be central to a library’s mission to support the production and dissemination of scholarship. As such, we urge scholars who publisher their journals with us to extend that approach to their authors and readers.
Our services are defined in a Service Level Agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding that govern our operations.
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McMaster University Library Press is a Crossref publisher. We mint and register a DOI for all articles published, assuring permanent, reliable linking for your journal.
For any questions please send an email to mulpress@mcmaster.ca
Journals
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Early Theatre
Early Theatre publishes original, peer-reviewed research on medieval and early modern drama and theatre history. Please click the About tab, above, to find out more about our focus and scope, editorial team, support for authors, copyright and green open access policies, and more.
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Canadian Journal of Autism Equity
Established in December 2020, the Canadian Journal of Autism Equity is an open-access e-journal focused on critically engaging with a variety of equity discussions within the autism community and public policy. Seeking authorship primarily by first-voice Autistic people or people with lived experience with autism and intersectionality, the Journal seeks to offer a platform to amplify marginalized voices and share these perspectives with decision-makers and Canadians alike.
CJAE is currently published once each year, in April following World Autism Acceptance Day.
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Bridges: Conversations in Global Politics and Public Policy
Editors: Nicholas Bernards Mark Busser Marcel Goguen Sarah Shoker Scott Smith Murray Wilson We are pleased to announce the formation of Bridges: Conversations in Global Politics and Public Policy, an open access, multimedia innovative journal launched in 2012.
This academic, fully peer reviewed journal will serve as a tool to introduce and discuss key concepts, ideas and people in International Relations and Public Policy, providing a 'bridging tool' for students and scholars of the field. Written submissions will be accompanied by a multimedia component to allow open and public discussion about the ideas and concepts discussed in the journal.
To view video submissions please see our related youtube channel.
Manuscripts should be submitted via this website, and video components can be added during the submission process. If you have any questions about the process please see our submission guidelines or contact bcgp@mcmaster.ca.
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Health Reform Observer – Observatoire des Réformes de Santé
Health Reform Observer – Observatoire des Réformes de Santé is a fully open access, peer-reviewed, online journal, edited by leading health policy and system researchers from across Canada. It charges no reader or author fees. HRO-ORS publishes descriptive and comparative analyses of important Canadian health reforms – what happened, how, why, and with what impact. Recognizing the decentralized nature of the Canadian health systems, the journal aims to support inter-jurisdictional learning by facilitating the flow of rigorous, evidence-based information between scholars, decision-makers, and stakeholders.
Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé est un journal en ligne, gratuit, à comité de lecture, édité par un groupe d'experts en recherche sur les systèmes de santé, de tout le Canada. HRO-ORS publie des analyses descriptives et comparatives des réformes de santé majeures au Canada : ce qui s'est passé, comment, pourquoi, et avec quelles conséquences. Compte tenu de la nature décentralisée des systèmes de santé au Canada, le journal vise à faciliter les transferts de savoir entre provinces et territoires en encourageant la production et la circulation d’information rigoureuse et fondée sur les preuves entre chercheurs, politiques et parties prenantes.
http://dx.doi.org/10.13162/issn.2291-6369
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Energy Studies Review
Energy Studies Review, a publication of the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, is an applied energy policy journal published in Canada.
An interdisciplinary journal for energy analysts (published first in 1988), Energy Studies Review's major themes include energy policy, energy and the environment, energy technology, social impacts of energy utilization, sustainable energy, renewable energy, energy systems management, energy optimization, and surveys of experimental and theoretical approaches.
We also publish special issues devoted to specialized topics emerging from conferences or workshops devoted to particular themes. Articles in both English and French are welcome.
Energy Studies Review also hosts conferences and workshops. For more information on past conferences and future events, please go to our Conferences page.
Contact Information:
Energy Studies Review
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, DSB-A101 Hamilton ON L8S 4M4 CANADA
Tel: 905-525-9140 ext. 24695 Email: esr@mcmaster.ca
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Global Labour Journal
The Global Labour Journal (GLJ) is the flagship journal of RC44 Labour Movements, research group of the International Sociological Association and of the Global Labour University (GLU).
Journal Impact FactorTM
1.3 [2023] and 2.2 [Five Year].
GLJ's category rank of 28/51 in JCR category INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOUR (ESCI edition). The Category Quartile, Q3.
Source: Journal Citation Reports 2023.
Journal Citation IndicatorTM
0.47 [2023] and 0.6 [2022]. Category rank of 35/51 [INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOUR]. Category Quartile, Q3.
CLASS A JOURNAL FOR SOCIOLOGY OF WORK (ITALIAN RESEARCH EVALUATION AGENCY-ANVUR)
ISSN: 1918-6711
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International Journal for Students as Partners
IJSaP is published twice a year by McMaster University Library Press and supported by McMaster’s Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching.
Vision
The International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) is a journal about learning and teaching together in higher education. IJSaP explores new perspectives, practices, and policies regarding how students and staff (used here and subsequently to refer to academic staff/faculty, professional staff, and other stakeholders) are working in partnership to enhance learning and teaching in higher education. Shared responsibility for teaching and learning is the underlying premise of students as partners, and IJSaP is produced using a student-staff partnership approach.
IJSaP is designed to appeal to a wide audience of readers and potential authors in the higher education community. It aims to publish high quality research articles, case studies, reflective essays, opinion pieces, reviews, and other pieces from around the world. Contributions written collaboratively by students and staff are particularly encouraged, although single and other co-authored pieces are also acceptable. All submissions go through a rigorous review process involving both staff and students.
About IJSaP
IJSaP is an open access, online, English-language, peer-reviewed journal that is committed to enacting the principles of partnership in the way it operates.
The distinctive features of IJSaP:
- It is an international journal on students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education
- It values multiple forms of analysis, including research articles, case studies, opinion pieces, reflective essays, and reviews
- Authors, reviewers, and readers constitute a broad group within the higher education community, including academics, instructors, educational developers, librarians, learning resource specialists, officers of students' unions/guilds associations, undergraduate and graduate students, and other stakeholders working with student partners
- Leadership is from an international editorial team of academics and students working in partnership
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Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
JHAP aims to promote research in and discussion of the history of analytical philosophy. Read more ...
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International Journal of Risk and Recovery
The International Journal of Risk and Recovery publishes research and practice-based articles for academics and clinicians. The scope of the journal is to cover forensic psychiatric and medico-legal issues with a particular focus on risk and innovation in rehabilitation in forensic mental health.
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Journal of Professional Communication
JPC is an international publication for practitioners, policy makers and academics.
The professional communication world has a new interdisciplinary, peer reviewed journal for practitioners, journalists, artists, policy makers and academics to exchange ideas. JPC publishes case studies, interviews, research articles, works of digital media art and sound, works of design and commentary. We invite you to become part of the JPC community.
JPC is supported by an Aid to Scholarly Publications grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Where learning deeply matters: Reflections on the past, present, and future of teaching at McMaster University
2022 marks the 50th anniversary of McMaster University’s teaching and learning centre, presently known as the Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching (MacPherson Institute, or MI), one of the first established in Canada. In alignment with the institute’s vision of “Cultivating an environment where learning deeply matters and teaching is valued and recognized by the collective McMaster community,” we wondered how we might leverage this milestone to further value and recognize teaching and learning at McMaster. This edited volume emerged in response.
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TEXT Technology
In 2010, TEXT Technology, will be relaunched as the Journal of Professional Communication (ISSN: 1920-6852).
TEXT Technology has been an eclectic journal for academics and professional communicators around the world, publishing articles devoted to any use of computers to acquire, analyze, create, edit, or translate texts. It will continue to feature articles and special issues devoted to professional and academic writing and research, software and book reviews, literary and linguistic analyses of texts, electronic publishing and issues related to the Internet, along with annotated bibliographies of printed and electronic materials of use to those with a decided interest in professional communication. In addition, we will publish case studies, opinion pieces, experiments in communication pedagogy, discussions and interviews with prominent Canadian professional communicators and digital works, both critical and commercial, of creativity, art and design.
Toward that end, we will publish three more issues under the TEXT Technology banner, each of which will be a double issue bringing the journal current up to 2009. In 2010, we will move to our new format and our new identity.
Additionally, we are making available a complete archive of every back issue of TEXT Technology on this website. This entire archive will be available to all current subscribers to the journal.
We are also moving to a new "print on demand" model for paper distribution of the journal. Our subscription model will give access to the website, but should you wish to have a bound version of the journal, we will be able to provide unique copies for the price of $25 per issue. This covers our printing, mailing and labour cost to produce the issue. This reflects SSHRC’s current policy direction toward funding electronic journals and is also beneficial to the environment.
Our scope is broad, our readership international. We invite you to become part of that readership.
Yours,
Alexandre Sévigny, Incoming Editor-in-ChiefTEXT Technology (Journal of Professional Communication)
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Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies
Since 1971 Russell (ISSN 1913-8032) has been devoted to the study of all aspects of Bertrand Russell's thought as well as his life, times and influence. For the first 51 years of publication, Russell was edited by Kenneth Blackwell. Andrew Bone and Gülberk Koç Maclean have been the editors since 2022.
In addition to original research and reviews of new books, the journal publishes new texts and textual studies, discussions, bibliographies, indexes, and archival lists. Scholarly articles submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed twice anonymously. Russell is not the organ of any association or institution.
Beginning with the summer 2023 issue (Vol. 43, no. 1) the journal will be published in print and digital formats by Johns Hopkins University Press, with PDF and HTML versions of all new content being accessible on Project Muse—along with the entire back catalogue (in PDF only). Russell continues to be produced out of the Bertrand Russell Research Centre at McMaster.
Open Access to issues covering the entire span of Blackwell’s editorship will continue on this website.
Russell was founded by McMaster University Library in 1971 as a quarterly newsletter and until 1980 it was numbered by cumulative issue number. A new series was begun as Vol. 1, no. 1, in summer 1981; with the winter 1999 issue (Vol. 19, no. 2) the subtitle of the journal changed from “the Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives” to “the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies”.
