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| The Journal will be a fully peer reviewed, English language, on line, free access journal that will initially appear twice a year. It will be hosted from the University of Plymouth but will be advised by a Consultant Editorial Board of experienced scholars and researchers across disciplines and countries. The submission of articles from all social research disciplines and methodological approaches will be encouraged. Articles will focus on areas such as methodological problems and their solutions, new methods and techniques, innovative ways of combining methods and techniques and new applications of traditional methods. |
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| Twice per year with additional special issues |
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 This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources. |
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| 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... |
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| The editors reserve the right not to publish materials submitted. The editors reserve the right not to enter into correspondence with authors or third parties about editorial decisions. The editors reserve the right to reject items deemed unstuiable prior to the refereeing process. |
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Methodological Innovations Online. ISSN: 1748-0612