Name | UJ Press |
Membership Category | Professional Publisher (Small) |
Website | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/ |
Owner | The University of Johannesburg is the owner of UJ Press housed in the Library |
Main Address | Office 311, Level 3, Library, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Campus, Kingsway |
Other Office Locations | |
Copyright and Licensing Link | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/permissions |
Copyright and Licensing Policy | UJ Press allows authors to retain the copyright to their original work. UJ Press titles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.This license allows you to share and adapt the work, but you must attribute the work to the author(s) and may not use it for commercial purposes.For any reuse or distribution, please include the following citation:Author(s). ([Year]). Title of Book. UJ Press. https://www.doi.org/ (insert DOI link) |
Complaint Contact Link | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/about/contact |
Complaint Policy | No specific complaints policy. |
Publication Charge Link | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/about/submissions |
Publication Charge Policy | For our book publications, we charge Book Processing Charges. We do not make funding a requirement for publication though and do publish diamond OA books. Some of our journals are Diamond OA and some are Gold OA |
OASPA Compliant OA Journals | 21 |
OA Articles (approx. number in 12 months) | 210 |
OASPA Compliant OA Books | 153 |
Peer Review Process Link | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/about |
Peer Review Policy | All of our publications are subjected to a double-blind peer-review process before publication.
The process is as follows:
Initial Screening by Discipline Editor (1-2 weeks).
Feedback shared with Editor/Author to revise submission before Internal Review
Internal Review of Proposal by External Reviewer (1-2 months)
Feedback shared with Editor/Author to revise manuscript before External Review
External Review of Complete Manuscript by 2-3 External Reviewers (1-2 months)
Feedback shared with Editor/Author to revise manuscript before Approval or Rejection of Manuscript.
Two positive reviews are required to approve a manuscript for publication.
If a manuscript is rejected by one reviewer, it will be submitted to another round of review.
If a manuscript is rejected by two reviewers, it will be rejected.
The review process takes place according to the following principles:
Pre-publication peer review.
Double-blind peer review.
The Editor mediates all interactions between reviewers and authors.
Peer reviews are not published.
Reviews are owned by the authors of the reviews.
In evaluating the manuscript, reviewers focus on the following aspects:
Originality
Contribution to the field
Technical quality
Clarity of presentation
Depth of research |
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