Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna
ISSN: 2187-0616
Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah
Contact: publications@iafor.org
The IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities is an internationally reviewed and editorially independent interdisciplinary journal associated with IAFOR’s international conferences on the arts and humanities. Like all IAFOR publications, it is freely available to read online, and it is completely free of publication fees for authors. The first issue was published in July 2012.
Indexed in: DOAJ, MIAR, Google Scholar, UGC_CARE, SHERPA/RoMEO, LENS.ORG, Dimensions, Scilit, IJIFACTOR, TROVE, Mir@bel and Humanities Source. DOIs are assigned to each published issue and article via Crossref.
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IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 10 – Issue 1. Published August 16, 2023
The IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities published one issue in 2023. The Publication Timeline for 2024 is expected to be posted in September.
Volume 10 Issue 1
Submissions Opened: Wednesday March 22, 2023
Submissions Closed: Friday June 30, 2023 (9am JST)
Issue Published: August 16, 2023
Please note:
- Once an article has been rejected, an author cannot resubmit either an amendment to this article or another article for this issue of the journal.
- We will only accept one submission from any author in a particular issue and no more than two submissions, in different issues, over the course of a year. This includes both individual and shared authorship. If you submit as an individual you may not be a shared author on another submission, and vice versa. Also, if you have had a submission rejected you cannot be an author on another paper for that same issue.
The Acceptance Rate for Volume 9 was 9%.
Archiving Policy
From summer 2022, the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities will be deposited in the CLOCKSS Repository.
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IAFOR Commitment
IAFOR believes in “Open Access” publishing, and since 2009, has been committed to maintaining an online searchable research archive that offers free access to anyone, anywhere, where there is Internet access, regardless of institutional affiliation or scholarly rank. IAFOR publications are accessible on the website (Open Access) to researchers all over the world, completely free of charge and without delay or embargo. Authors and contributors are not required to pay charges of any sort towards the publication of IAFOR journals.
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Journals and other forms of print and digital media will be made available by IAFOR to the general public on an online, Open Access basis. By publishing their work with IAFOR, authors enter into an exclusive License Agreement, where they have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to IAFOR as the publisher.