Publication GuidelinesEDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ) is a practitioner's journal of EDUCAUSE, published four times a year (in early February, May, August, and November). Potential feature articles are reviewed by an editorial review committee, and those published in EQ are referenced in such indexing services as ERIC, Computer Literature Index, and Higher Education Abstracts. The review process usually takes from six to eight weeks; author revision and the editorial production cycle may take up to six months. EQ authors receive full editorial support and gain valuable exposure and recognition in a very visible professional forum. View author testimonials. Higher education IT professionals and faculty (including those who are not EDUCAUSE members) may submit unsolicited manuscripts for publication consideration in EQ. Corporate representatives who feel they have material that meets the content guidelines below are encouraged to solicit authorship by campus representatives to retain the magazine’s "peer-to-peer" approach and avoid promotional or commercial overtones. All material published in EDUCAUSE publications must be free from endorsement of specific hardware environments and/or proprietary software or services; corporate press releases about new products or product adoptions do not meet editorial standards. The magazine’s overarching goals are to provide a vehicle for practical content on broadly innovative, non-vendor–specific IT solutions and compelling technology-related issues in higher education and to foster dialogue between campus IT practitioners and managers. Who Reads EQ?EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit, professional association for managers and users of information resources on college and university campuses. The content of EQ relates to planning, managing, and using information resources (including technology, services, and information) in higher education, ranging from administrative, academic, library, and social computing to multimedia, telecommunications, and networking. EQ readers are involved in diverse areas professionally on campus, including administrative computer services, information systems development, user services, telecommunications and networking, academic computer services, institutional research and planning, database administration, and instructional technology development and coordination. Most readers are central IT organization staff, but increasingly the readership includes individuals who work in campus and departmental libraries, research and planning offices, and administrative and academic offices. Publication ContentThe journal’s areas of interest are exemplified by the annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey, which identifies the top-ten IT issues for the year. Please see the survey for guidance on topics that would be appropriate for submission to EQ. Contact editor Nancy Hays at eqeditor@educause.edu with queries on topics or proposals for articles. CopyrightAuthors retain copyright of their work. Once material has been accepted for publication, authors are asked to sign an author agreement form verifying that they have the right to publish the material and that they grant permission to EDUCAUSE to publish their work in both print and online. Authors are also asked to assign a Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) license to their work, with EDUCAUSE recommending the attribution-noncommercial-no derivative works license as a default option. In addition:
EQ PublicationArticles in EQ fall into several categories. A Feature is an in-depth article ranging from 3,500 to 6,000 words. Research reported should include assessment, whether quantitative or qualitative, and recommendations. Other types of articles (800 to 3,000 words) include Current Issues, Viewpoints, Good Ideas, Recommended Reading, Research in Brief, and Professional Development.
Specifications for Submitting Articles for Publication ConsiderationPapers should be submitted to Nancy Hays (eqeditor@educause.edu) electronically, as a word-processed file (preferably Microsoft Word). Figures and graphics can be submitted in the Word file for review purposes; for publication, they will be needed as separate files in their native formats. EDUCAUSE can accept documents in most word-processing formats. Page layout and presentation software (e.g., InDesign, Quark, and PowerPoint) are not acceptable, nor is PDF. If it is not possible to send your manuscript as an e-mail attachment, EDUCAUSE can accept CDs. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a letter (or e-mail message if being sent electronically) stating that the paper is to be considered for publication as a feature or specific department article in EQ. The message should include name, title, complete address, and phone number, as well as a fax number and e-mail address, for each author. The Editorial Review ProcessArticles under consideration for publication as feature articles in EQ are sent for blind review to all members of the editorial review committee (the members of the committee are listed on the inside front cover of each issue of the journal). Reviewers evaluate the articles in five categories:
Reviewers also provide comments about the article and often make specific suggestions on how it could be improved that are shared with authors. (Even very well written articles are usually revised before publication.) The following table summarizes what the editor and reviewers look for in articles submitted for publication in EQ. It suggests what your article should address and avoid, as well as how to present a feature-length case study or research study for publication.
For any kind of feature article, a list of suggested articles, books, and other publications on the same subject can be valuable, even if you have not used these references in the article text. They can be included in a “Further Reading” or “Other Resources” list. The EDUCAUSE Style Guide is online for your reference. EQ uses endnote style, with references and notes listed in the order they appear in the text. General endnote style for references includes all authors’ first and last names and middle initials if used in the original publication; title of work; title of book or periodical in which it appears if an article or chapter, or acknowledgment as a white paper, website, etc.; volume, number, month, and year of publication; publisher and publisher’s location for books; page numbers for books or periodicals; and URL if available (required for blogs and other web sources). For further information about submitting articles to EQ, contact the editor, Nancy Hays, at the EDUCAUSE office by phone at 303-939-0321 or e-mail eqeditor@educause.edu. |
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