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JCI Policies

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Philosophy of Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice

For more information, please see Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice Aims and Scope page.

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Editorial Process

The journal will be edited by a diverse team of practitioners, graduate students, community voices, scholars and experts in the fields related to Black women's experiences. The editorial board will ensure the highest standards of quality and relevance in the published articles.

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Peer Review Process

We will invite original research articles, literature reviews, essays, creative/performative artifacts and commentaries from scholars, researchers, community/public scholars, and writers. All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double-blind refereeing by at least two anonymous referees that often lead to multiple rounds of revisions to ensure academic integrity and contribute to the development of Black women theories, and practice. All potential authors should read our submission guidelines before uploading their manuscript through our submission platform.

The JCI: Black Women Theories & Practice does not use peer review for creative submissions, which, if accepted, are directly published in the journal or adjacent digital space, pending minor edits suggested by the editorial board.

The editorial board encourages authors/submitters to identify other experts in their field to convey a vision of the ideal audience for their work. Additionally, we believe it is crucial to encourage scholars from underrepresented/marginalized to recommend their own reviewers and to indicate anyone who should not be approached. This practice can lead to a more collaborative and unbiased evaluation of their submissions.

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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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Authors/submitters who publish in this journal maintain the copyright to their work. Articles published in the JCI: Black Women Theories & Practice are covered by a Creative Commons attribution license. This means authors can deposit their content in institutional repositories or personal archives and share or adapt it for various other uses.

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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Rights for Authors and Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship

As further described in our submission agreement (the Submission Agreement), in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship all copyright in the article, subject to the expansive personal--use exceptions described below.

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Open Access Policy

The Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Authors retain their copyright and agree to license their articles with a [license type with link to full text]. You can read more about Creative Commons licenses at creativecommons.org.

The Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice is a no-fee journal. Authors/submitters are not charged for the publication of their articles.

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Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

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Unity, Inclusion, and Belonging

The editorial board is dedicated to ensuring diversity among its own members and the authors it publishes.

The Journal of Creative Inquiry: Black Women Theories & Practice values initiatives that promote unity, authentic collaboration and belonging to improve the quality of Black women epistemology, theories and practice and the advancement of society. JCI supports initiatives that promote the creation of opportunities for historically underrepresented/marginalized populations through the lens and practice of Black women that can close the demographic disparities that still exist in all spheres of institutional societal systems.

To support the policy on unity, inclusion, and belonging JCI:

  • Operates under a diverse Editorial Board representing various geographic locations, specialty areas, and traditional and nontraditional educational settings;
  • Provides avenues for interdisciplinary submissions that are applicable to Black women theories and practice;
  • Encourages authors whose English is not their first language to submit

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Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship, requires credit to Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship as copyright holder (e.g., Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship © 2024).

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Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);
  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series); and
  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact the editors.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship website and/or software agree not to misuse the Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship service or software in any way.

The failure of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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