Focus and Scope
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The Law, Social Justice, and Global Development Online Journal
This new academic ejournal will focus on the integration of developing and newly industrialising countries as well as the so-called transitional countries of Central and Eastern Europe into global economic, social and political processes. It will examine the implications of globalisation (in itself a contentious concept; this will be explored in the ejournal) for the countries concerned.
In particular, the ejournal will cover the impact of globalisation on legal developments in relation to human rights; social justice; democratisation; constitutionalism; national, ethnic and religious identities; social action; and economic liberalisation. It will give due attention to issues of gender justice, the concerns of indigenous peoples and poverty and social exclusion. In addition, it will examine the key roles of transnational corporations; financial institutions; multilateral institutions such as the UN, IMF, World Bank, and the GATT/WTO; states; and NGOs. A specific aim will be to engage with the dynamic between local, national, regional and global spheres of social action.
On current evidence of electronic journals such as JILT (Journal of Information Law and Technology), the pervasive nature of the world wide web provides a much greater international readership, who have access through web search facilities to material in the ejournal. Readers can browse the content of the ejournal electronically from their desks and, if appropriate, print paper copies for their perusal. An international readership also encourages an international authorship. The ease of electronic communication means that the processes of submission, refereeing, editing and publication can be much quicker and will ensure a faster publication of accepted manuscripts. Issues of immediate concern can be communicated through news pages on the journal.
The following will be the ejournal's distinctive contributions: (1) it will be electronic and thus reach a much wider audience than is possible with traditional academic journals; (2) it will contain rigorously refereed academic articles as well as practical commentaries from activists and legal practitioners; (3) it will focus on developing, newly industrialising and Central and Eastern European countries; and (4) it will focus on legal issues within their social economic and political context.
The ejournal will provide an avenue for the growing academic debate in the area. It will contribute to the understanding of the opportunities and risks that are inherent in globalisation. It is envisaged that the ejournal will explore the possible strategies for developing, newly industrialising and the so-called transitional societies.
The journal will be instituted at a time when there is an increasing focus on law and governance in relation to developing, newly industrialising and the so-called transitional societies and on issues relating to globalisation among multilateral organisations such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the European Union and bilateral agencies as well as among activists in the developing world.
Section Policies
Articles
Editors- Patrick Inglis
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reviews
Editors- Tom Jones
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Multimedia
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
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Filaria Journal
Peer review in Filaria Journal is designed to ensure that the research published is 'good science'.
Filaria Journal accepts articles spanning a wide range of scientific interests, as long as the results and conclusions are scientifically justified and not misleading.
We recognize the importance of highlighting articles that contain the most interesting, important or significant research. Peer reviewers are asked to indicate which articles they consider to be especially interesting or significant. These articles will be given greater prominence within Filaria Journal and greater external publicity.
Submitted articles will generally be reviewed by two external experts.
Peer reviewers will have four possible options, for each article:
1. accept without revision
2. accept after revision without expecting to check those revisions
3. neither accept nor reject until author(s) make revisions and resubmit
4. reject because scientifically unsound
In deciding whether to accept or reject an article, a reviewer asks him/herself whether the scientific community is better served by publishing or not publishing the article. In the absence of compelling reasons to reject, Filaria Journal advises that reviewers recommend acceptance, as ultimately the quality of an article will be judged by the scientific community after its publication.
When asking for revisions, reviewers have two possible goals: to ask authors to tighten their arguments based on existing data or to identify areas where more data are needed.
Filaria Journal normally allows authors a maximum of two revisions of an article.
Peer reviewers are asked to say if the article is not sufficiently clearly written for publication. In such cases authors are asked to revise the article, seeking, if necessary, the assistance of colleagues or a commercial editing service.
We aim to publish research as quickly as possible. Our electronic submission process is designed to facilitate rapid publication.
Publication Frequency
The journal is published quarterly.
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...
ISSN: 1234-9876