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Author Guidelines

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Philosophy of The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History

For more information, please see The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Any undergraduate student in the Great Lakes region may submit an original article to be considered for publication in The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History 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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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 The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History, 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 The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History. If you have concerns about the submission terms for The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History has strict formatting rules for initial submission. These can be found on the Call for Submissions page..

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 Scholarship at UWindsor

Copyright for each article published in Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History belongs to its author(s). Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History has the right of first publication. Permission to reprint any article that appears in Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History MUST be obtained in writing from the author(s). In addition to any form of acknowledgement required by the author(s), the following notice must be added to the statement of copyright permission made in the reprint (with the appropriate numbers replacing the ellipses): [Article Title] was originally published in Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History , Volume ..., Number ..., pp. ...-... .

Open Access

The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History is available free of charge on line to anyone who accesses its URL.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium requires credit to the author as copyright holder

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from Scholarship at UWindsor 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 Scholarship at UWindsor website and/or software agree not to misuse the Scholarship at UWindsor service or software in any way.

The failure of Scholarship at UWindsor 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 Scholarship at UWindsor and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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