Focus and Scope
The International Journal of Mormon Studies is an online and limited print, multi-academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Mormon Studies is an interdisciplinary journal that is centred on Mormon studies and is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines.
We are interested in scholarship that crosses disciplinary lines and speaks to readers from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. In other words, the International Journal of Mormon Studies will be a forum for scholars when they address the wider audiences of our many sub-fields and specialties, rather than the location for the narrower conversations more appropriately conducted within more specialised journals.
Section Policies
Front Matter
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Editorial
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Articles
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Announcments
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Book Reviews
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Contributors
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Index
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Back Matter
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Full Issue
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
To submit a manuscript for review, including book reviews please email them for consideration in the first instance to submissions@ijmsonline.org, if you have not heard from IJMS within 48 hours contact the editor, upon receipt we will acknowledge your submission via email. The submission will then be blind peer reviewed by two reviewers. The editor will be the only one to know the identity of the author. We will then contact you with reference to your submission and discuss any comments that may have been suggested.
Open Access Policy
Open Access enables authors to obtain the maximum possible exposure for their work. Freely available papers are read more, cited more, and have more impact than ones available only to paid subscribers. As an experiment, enter a research topic into a search engine like Google and see how many links you obtain to papers published in traditional journals. You will find that most references are to working papers, not to published papers, because working papers are freely available.
The advent of the web has made free dissemination of research feasible and financially viable. Because existing specialty journals obtain revenues from selling subscriptions, primarily to libraries, access to the research they publish is limited. The attractive revenue stream that such subscriptions provide makes it unlikely that these journals will convert to Open Access. Thus a need exists for new refereed Open Access journals to replace existing journals. We believe that the establishment of a major Open Access journal in communication study will lead others to establish Open Access journals for many sub-fields and specialities in communcation, reclaiming full control for the profession of its research output. We hope that this will lead the profession to a new norm in which all research is freely available.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
