Submissions

This page is designed to help you ensure that your submission is ready and fits the scope of the journal.

Before submitting, read over the guidelines here and then register an account (or log in if you have an existing account).

Please use the following file naming conventions for your manuscript:

[AuthorLastName][FirstInitial][ShortTitle][SubmissionType][Date or VersionNumber].docx

(eg. Okafor_J_Afrocentric_FactChecking_Article_v1.docx)

Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (DSCN) is a refereed academic journal that serves as an Open Access area for formal scholarly activity and as a resource for researchers in the digital humanities. It is published for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations under the direction of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) by the Open Library of the Humanities.

Submissions to DSCN focus on the intersection of technology and humanities research, including the application of technology to cultural, historical, and social problems; the societal and institutional context of such applications; and the history and development of the field of digital humanities. Submissions focusing on issues of the practice of the digital humanities in a global, multicultural, or multilingual context are particularly encouraged.

As a rule, submissions to DSCN should be of generalizable import: project reports and technical notes are welcome when they discuss significant milestones in the history and development of the field or are clearly extensible. DSCN rarely publishes criticism of digital objects (e.g., game criticism, literary criticism of electronic art or literature); it does so primarily in the context of special issues.

DSCN is a Gold Open Access refereed journal. Articles published with DSCN are compliant with most national and institutional Open Access mandates, including the Research Council UK (RCUK) Open Access Mandate (required by the HEFC for the post-2014 REF) and the Canadian Draft Tri-Agency Open Access Policy.

All articles published by DSCN are published under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY licence (required for compatibility with the RCUK mandate, but not offered by many journals in the humanities and social sciences). This means that authors and institutions may also freely republish their work in their own institutional repositories or personal webpages (Green Open Access).

Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (DSCN) is a refereed academic journal that serves as an Open Access area for formal scholarly activity and as a resource for researchers in the digital humanities. It is published for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations under the direction of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) by the Open Library of the Humanities.

Submissions to DSCN focus on the intersection of technology and humanities research, including the application of technology to cultural, historical, and social problems; the societal and institutional context of such applications; and the history and development of the field of digital humanities. Submissions focusing on issues of the practice of the digital humanities in a global, multicultural, or multilingual context are particularly encouraged.

As a rule, submissions to DSCN should be of generalizable import: project reports and technical notes are welcome when they discuss significant milestones in the history and development of the field or are clearly extensible. DSCN rarely publishes criticism of digital objects (e.g., game criticism, literary criticism of electronic art or literature); it does so primarily in the context of special issues.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission's compliance with the following items. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to authors.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. All authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
3. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
4. The text follows all Author Guidelines.
5. Tables and figures are all cited in the text (e.g., "see Figure 1"). Tables are included within the text document, and figure files are uploaded as supplementary files.
6. Figures have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Each file is no more than 20 MB and is in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS. (To maximize quality, the original source file is preferred.)
7. Citations have been formatted according the Author–Date system in the 18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. (Examples: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html.)
8. All DOIs for the references have been provided, if available.
9. There are no footnotes or endnotes of any kind in the paper.
10. All third-party-owned materials (e.g., figures, tables) are used with permission from the copyright holder and have been identified with appropriate credit lines.
11. The submission adheres to the publisher's guidance on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly that substantial and known uses of generative AI are declared in an "AI Declaration Statement" as a section within the manuscript and that this declaration is also given in the online submission process when prompted. Please read OLH's AI Policy for further information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of generative AI, and where and how to make an "AI Declaration Statement" if this is required.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

All submissions are initially assessed by an editor, who decides whether or not the article fits the scope of the journal and is suitable for peer review. Submissions considered suitable are assigned to one or more independent experts, who assess the article for clarity, validity, and sound methodology.

The journal operates a modified single-anon peer review process. This means that referees remain anonymous unless they recommend acceptance. Referees who recommend acceptance are identified in the article colophon after the article is accepted for publication.

We encourage referees to review the article as soon as possible, preferably within 2–4 weeks. Please let us know if you expect to require more than four weeks.

Reviewers are asked to provide formative feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal.

The following licences are allowed:

• CC BY 4.0 - More Information  
  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

This journal is published by the Open Library of Humanities. Unlike many open-access publishers, the Open Library of Humanities does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium.

If your institution is not currently supporting the platform, we request that you ask your librarian to sign up. The OLH is extremely cost effective and is a not-for-profit charity. However, while we cannot function without financial support and we encourage universities to sign up, institutional commitment is not required to publish with us.

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publically available.

Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.