As a service of the Queen's University Library, Open Journals @ Queen's provides Queen’s faculty and students with the hosting and support to publish an open access journal, series, or proceedings publication. If you are interested in learning more see a list of our current titles below and contact us at open.scholarship.services@queensu.ca.
Journals
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Queen's Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies
The Queen's Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies (QJERS) was founded in 2021 with the purpose of amplifying student voices in critical discourses on race and ethnicity. The journal strives to promote a better understanding of race, racialization and settler colonialism by amplifying student voices, giving the community a platform to share their writing, creative expressions and experiences of marginalization.
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Qapsule: Queen's Undergraduate Health Sciences Journal
A Snapshot of Qapsule
Qapsule is a leading light in the realm of Health Sciences. Established in Fall 2021, this undergraduate journal at Queen's University is renowned for its meticulously researched pieces that span across diverse facets like Anatomy, Pharmacology, Ethics, and more. With its unique initiative, ReQap, Qapsule also delves into podcast interviews, engaging with esteemed professionals and students. Supported by the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Program, Alma Mater Society (AMS), and Queen's Library, Qapsule has been a platform where scientific rigour meets engaging discourse. Its open-access policy ensures immediate availability of content post-publication, emphasizing the importance of free and broad academic dialogue.
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One Health Innovation
One Health Innovation is founded in the recognition that all stakeholders in the One Health model (humans, non human animals and the environment) must be taken into account when considering climate change mitigation and/or one health initiatives. Articles in the 'One Health Innovations' section of the journal were developed, written and peer reviewed by undergraduate students. These innovations propose grassroots initiatives to address climate related one health challenges.
Article authors are solely responsible for all content in their article(s), including obtaining permissions for use of any intellectual property, including images, written material and/or ideas, that is not their original work. The opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors.
Publication in One Health Innovation does not imply endorsement by One Health Innovation or the editors.
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Portable MRI Journal
Portable MRI Journal is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed publication that contains the latest research, case reports, and protocols on portable magnetic resonance imaging. We invite submissions from clinicians, researchers, and portable MRI educators.
Visit our website, www.portablemrijournal.org for more information.
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Aging and (Geron) Technology
Aging and (Geron) Technology exists to publish innovative and transdisciplinary work on Aging and Technology recognizing that any technology utilized by older adults can be considered gerontechnology. We are founded on the principle that older adults are not 'other', merely younger adults with more mileage.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Aging and (Geron) Technology and/or the editors.
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The Psychology Commons
The Psychology Commons is an open access library of interactive educational resources related to psychology. Submissions across all areas and subdisciplines of psychology, and across all levels of study, are considered. Submissions accepted for publication are published on a rolling basis.
The Psychology Commons can be accessed at: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/psychologycommons/
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Encounters in Theory and History of Education
Encounters in Theory and History of Education / Encuentros en Teoría e Historia de la Educación / Rencontres en Théorie et Histoire de l'Éducation is an interdisciplinary, multi-lingual journal that serves as a forum to present and discuss the theory and history of education in a global space. It welcomes papers that are methodologically and historiologically reflective or have a critical perspective, and which could open new lines of thought or ways of approaching knowledge in the field of education. The journal is indexed in the following databases: Scopus, Web Of Science Core Collection (ESCI), IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, EBSCO Education Source, DOAJ- Directory of Open Access Journals, DIALNET, DICE and LATINDEX. See For Readers and About the Journal for more information.
THEIRG Monograph Series
Readers are invited to visit the Monograph Series website for further publications of the Theory and History of Education International Research Group.
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Living Histories: A Past Studies Journal
Living Histories: A Past Studies Journal is an annual journal of undergraduate research, first published in May, 2022. Engaging with scholars and students across a wide range of subjects, regions, and time periods, Living Histories focuses on scholarship that connects historical analysis to contemporary issues. To this end, we encourage an interdisciplinary approach that understands how the past continues to have an impact upon the present.
The submission window for the 2024 edition of Living Histories will close February 28th, 2024.
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Canadian Military Journal
The Canadian Military Journal is the official professional publication of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence. The Journal is published quarterly in both official languages (English and French) under authority of the Minister of National Defence.
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Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action
Total article views since 2007: 123,326. We haven't moved as much product as a certain Golden 'Food' Chain, but we think that what we offer is better than even 10 billion burgers. And it's all free! Thanks very much to everyone who has contributed over the years, and to those who have checked out what we've been doing. -
Canadian Planning and Policy / Aménagement et politique au Canada
Canadian Planning and Policy is a scholarly publication project undertaken by the Association of Canadian University Planning Programs and the Canadian Institute of Planners. Canadian Planning and Policy publishes manuscripts reflecting the scope and diversity of planning theory and practice in Canada. This publication has a goal to provide a forum for detailed peer-reviewed research on planning in Canada that invites reflection by practitioners, academics, and students.
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Federalism-E
Federalism-E is a bilingual, open access, peer-reviewed journal presenting undergraduate research on federalism.
For more info on the journal, click here.
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Federal Governance
Federal Governance is an international online graduate journal about the theory and practice of federalism and publishes its articles on a rolling basis. It is the first graduate journal of federalism with an international team of editors behind it. Allied with the Forum of Federations and the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen’s University, Federal Governance aims to contribute to a global dialogue on federalism.
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Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry is a copyrighted, peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal that advances research and thinking on race and racialization in Canadian and international contexts and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to critical race inquiry that extend beyond institutional walls.
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Immediate Science Ecology
Immediate Science Ecology is an editorial-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal published at Queen’s University. Opportunity for post-publication peer review and detailed download statistics are provided. Undergraduate honor’s students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows publish free of charge.
The primary goal of Immediate Science Ecology (ISE pronounced ‘eyes’) is to accelerate the rate of discovery in ecology. This can be achieved through at least the three following pathways: discovery, documentation, and development. All submissions are first identified as empirical or review. Then, accordingly, the authors must identify both in the submission and in the keywords whether the article is forwarding ecology via discovery (preliminary or exploratory study), documentation (confirmatory study or refutation of previous studies), or development (a standard study). The former two instances accelerate discovery in ecology by providing both the substrate for additional research developments and an accurate picture of the research conducted to date to the community so as to avoid repetition by others of work formerly unpublished and largely unknown. The latter category enhances synthesis and research by providing a niche for studies that need to be published very quickly so as to inform the community or public about important findings. Any level of biological organization including humans is considered.
ISE is searchable though Google Scholar, and by using any Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant metadata harvester. Google Scholar also tracks number of citations and lists citations for articles published herein.
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Ideas in Ecology and Evolution
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution is a peer-reviewed, open-access, non-profit, electronic journal published at Queen's University.
IEE publishes forum-style articles that develop New ideas or that involve original Commentaries on any topics within the broad domains of fundamental or applied ecology or evolution. They may encompass any level of biological organization, and involve any taxa, including humans. Articles may concern focussed subject matter within a particular sub-discipline of ecology or evolution, or they may be broader in scope, including articles that aim to inform fields of study outside of biology. The Table of Contents for the current issue is populated in succession, with each article added as soon as it is accepted for publication.
Creativity and controversy are the catalysts of scientific enquiry and discovery. The central mission of this journal is to provide a rapidly published repository for novel thinking and opinion-pieces — to serve effectively as a 'catalogue' for modellers and empiricists, as well as for educators and the media, from which they can 'shop' for original ideas and hypotheses that have been subjected to critical peer review (including with published commentary response from professional biologists), and that are available then to be explored, debated and tested by researchers. As a reliable source of inspiration, Ideas in Ecology and Evolution aims to play an important role in guiding the direction and progress of both future research and public awareness in ecology and evolution. IEE is searchable using Web of Science (starting 2015) and Google Scholar, and by using any Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant metadata harvester.
See For Readers and For Authors for more information.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Animal Justice & Food Politics
Animal Justice & Food Politics (AJ&P) is a student-run, peer reviewed legal journal based at Queen’s University. AJ&P was founded in 2017 by a group of students and faculty who seek to increase awareness of the legal issues facing the field of animal law research.
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Proceedings of Science Open Reviewed
Proceedings of Science Open Reviewed is a new peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal — run by researchers for researchers — providing rapid, low cost publication of discovery and commentary in the natural sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. Proc SciOR is published at Queen’s University, Canada, where — for its advisory editorial board — it draws from the Queen’s community of over 400 researchers.
Proc SciOR accepts submissions that are open peer-reviewed (non-blind) from authors registered with Science Open Reviewed — using an author-directed peer-review (ADPR) model. Submissions therefore are already peer-reviewed and accompanied by reviewer reports — also registered with Science Open Reviewed. Papers are published online as primary articles immediately following editor evaluation and approval of reviewer qualifications, reviewer reports, and routine screening for fraud check and author/reviewer conflicts of interest, plus any revision necessary to meet the journal’s formatting requirements and standards of quality for English and data (e.g. figure) presentation.
REVIEWERS for primary articles are also registered with Science Open Reviewed, and for accepted papers their names and affiliations are listed conspicuously—under separate subtitle—directly below the author name(s) in the published article. Reviewers are also invited to submit a commentary (response paper / opinion piece) inspired by their review of the published Proc SciOR article, or by their review of an article (wherein they are acknowledged as a reviewer) published in any other journal. These reviewer commentaries are reviewed by Advisory Editors of Proc SciOR, who may also consult with external reviewers. No author fees are charged for publication of reviewer commentaries that respond to primary articles published in Proc SciOR. Reviewers for Proc SciOR must hold a PhD or be registered as a PhD student at an accredited institution. Proc SciOR also supports post-publication peer-review, where logged-in users (identifited by name) can post comments on individual articles.
TURN YOUR BLOG POSTING INTO A PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE — In addition to original research reports and review papers, Proc SciOR also publishes your commentary/opinion pieces as cite-able peer-reviewed articles with doi numbers, together with published reviewer commentaries, plus post-publication peer-review through posted blog-style reader comments. If you already have a great blog posting, you can regard it as a 'pre-print', and turn it into a citable peer-reviewed article in Proc SciOR using the author-directed peer-review community at Science Open Reviewed. Perhaps some of the good reader comments on your original blog post will also point to possibilities for coauthors on your submission to Proc SiOR.
AUTHOR FEES (article processing charges) — currently only CAN $99 ($49 for grad students and postdocs) — are collected for cost recovery only, thus helping to maximize author funds available to support students, postdocs and front-line research costs (rather than the profit margins of commercial publishers).
Proc SciOR is a participating member of LOCKSS ('Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe'), which creates a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. Proc SciOR is searchable through Google Scholar, and by using any Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant metadata harvester. Google Scholar also tracks number of citations and lists citations for articles published in Proc SciOR.
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Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
Welcome to the Inquiry at Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings!
This Open Access online journal showcases the proceedings of the annual I@Q conference at Queen's University, highlighting the creative thinking of undergraduate students at Queen's.
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Politicus Journal
Politicus was established in 2014 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Initially published within the confines of international affairs, the mandate of the journal has since expanded to encapsulate the wider discipline of political studies. Our yearly volumes aim to capture innovative thought from our undergraduate community.
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JUEPPEQ: Journal of Undergraduate Engineering Physics and Physics Experiments at Queen’s
JUEPPEQ is an annual publication that enables undergraduate students enrolled in selected Engineering Physics and Physics courses at Queen’s University to share their research findings with the broader scientific community. The journal seeks articles related to any areas of physics and engineering physics. The work presented in the articles is completed during several weeks or months as a group project. All the authors are undergraduate students.
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Queen's Science Undergraduate Research Journal
The Queen’s Science Undergraduate Research Journal (QSURJ) is an online peer- reviewed and faculty-reviewed undergraduate research journal.
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Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
Conference Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA). The proceedings will include proceedings of the Canadian Design Engineering Nework (CDEN) and the Canadian Congress on Engineering Education (C2E2)
Currently Available: CEEA 2010-present, CDEN/C2E2 2004-09. For more information and inquiries contact administrator@ceea.ca
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WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference Proceedings
2018 WDSA / CCWI Joint Conference Proceedings: Queen’s University and the Royal Military College are organizing the 1st International Joint Conference in Water Distribution Systems Analysis & Computing and Control in the Water Industry in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on July 23-25, 2018. This joint conference brings together industry professionals and researchers from around the world to solve problems in the field of urban water systems, modelling, and control. The joint conference will tackle themes in water distribution analysis and modelling covered by the Water Distribution Systems Analysis (WDSA) series of conferences as well as themes in water systems modelling and control covered by the Computing and Control in the Water Industry (CCWI) series of conferences.
This open access journal will be used to host the proceedings from the conference and give free access to all the submitted papers.
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QIHI Journal of Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety
QIHI Journal focuses on various aspects of healthcare improvement and patient safety.
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POCUS Journal
POCUS Journal is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed publication that contains original research, case reports, and protocols on point of care ultrasound. A publication of the CINQUILL Medical Publishers Inc., POCUS Journal publishes online biannually in April and November. We invite submissions from clinicians, researchers, and POCUS educators. Read the latest issue of POCUS Journal or visit the archive for past issues.
POCUS Journal is indexed on PubMed Central and DOAJ.
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International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace
The International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace -IJESJP- is dedicated to the theory and practice of engineering, design and other proyect-based disciplines, that seek to promote social justice and peace in the world. Our focus is on practices that enhance gender, racial, class, and cultural equity; that are democratic, non-oppressive, and non-violent. The journal serves practicing professionals and educators in the fields of engineering, design, architecture, and all similar disciplines, as well as a general audience seeking to better understand the progressive potential of these fields.
This journal is peer-reviewed and the review process is designed for students, practitioners, researchers, and other interested parties. The scope of IJESJP includes the relationships between project-based and future-making practices and the contexts in which they act, as well as promoting the empowerment of communities to solve problems with design and engineering inputs. The scope of the journal includes knowledge and critical reflection on the following topics:- Alternative practices and conceptual frameworks of design disciplines that contribute to the empowerment of communities, especially in relation to how the practice of engineering, architecture and design is organized and managed: what do engineers, designers and architects do? For whom do they do it? With whom?;
- The dominant practices and conceptual frameworks of design disciplines that work in interests opposed to the promotion of social justice and peace, including the relationship between engineering, design and architecture and dominant economic, governmental and cultural institutions;
- The relationship between the design disciplines and the publics they serve, including needs assessments, linking professionals and practitioners with communities, public dialogue around the work of these disciplines, and the roles of their practitioners in the formulation of public policy;
- Engineering, design, and architecture educational strategies aimed at promoting social justice and/or peace, including issues of pedagogy, curriculum design and values, and institutions and academics;
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Surveillance & Society
The international, interdisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal of Surveillance Studies.