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Journals

Below you will find the Libraries Open Publishing journals catalog. All copyrights are retained by individual journals (or their sponsoring organization) and are either free to read, or licensed under a Creative Commons license. Please visit the individual journals' websites for more information about their specific peer review, copyright, and licensing policies. The Penn State Libraries has also partnered with select print publications to provide open access to back issues of these publications, specifically in the area of Pennsylvania History.

If you would like to submit a proposal for a new publication, please visit the Publish with Us page.


Journals Catalog

The Mentor: Innovative Scholarship on Academic Advising

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The Mentor: Innovative Scholarship on Academic Advising is a peer-reviewed, electronic, open access journal devoted to introducing new and unsettling existing ideas relevant to academic advising in higher education. Founded in 1999 and originally known as The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal, it was renamed The Mentor: Innovative Scholarship on Academic Advising in 2018 to reflect its rich history of publishing innovative ideas.

Arts, Culture & Development

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                    She is wearing a colorful flower crown and a hummingbird is coming to drink nectar from a flower on 
                    the crown.

Arts, Culture & Development, which has rolling submissions, is an open access, anonymous-peer-reviewed journal about the role of arts and culture in development and social transformation. The purpose of this journal is to bring forth and present practices and conversations that are so often missing in development literature, seeking to reveal the different ways practitioners are imagining or defining the role of arts and culture in global development.

Digital Literary Studies

Digital Literary Studies (DLS) published scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources.

DLS is no longer active and is not accepting submissions.

TFH: The Journal of History and Folklore

TFH: The Journal of History and Folklore is an online journal devoted to connections of folklore with history and to the history of folklore studies. TFH’s purview includes oral history, narrative, museology, local and regional history, and historiography. The journal accepts research articles, bibliographic studies, historiography, and translations, among a range of other types of pieces that can elucidate the intersections of history and folklore studies. TFH is the continuation of the print journal The Folklore Historian.

Geomorphica

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Geomorphica is a community-led and community-driven Diamond Open Access journal that promotes academic discourse and disseminates research results pertaining to all aspects of geomorphology, including, but not limited to, landscapes and landforms, earth and other planetary near-surface processes, and the mechanisms, dynamics and timescales pertaining to these processes.

Honors in Higher Education

Honors in Higher Education (HHE) was the journal of HERU: Honors Education at Research Universities, which existed to support honors education in research universities. Articles addressed a range of topics (e.g., curriculum, undergraduate research, community service) that are relevant to the basic goals of honors education: identifying and supporting the most motivated and talented students as they prepare not only for successful careers, but also for life-long learning and meaningful civic engagement. HHE published its first and final issue in May 2016 and is no longer accepting submissions.

IK: Other Ways of Knowing

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IK: Other Ways of Knowing was an electronic, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal that published original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of Indigenous knowledge from a global perspective. IK ceased publication at the end of 2019 and is no longer accepting submissions.

International Journal of Education & the Arts

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                  showing the journal title in white text on a green background

The International Journal of Education & the Arts currently serves as an open access platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts. The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, media education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields.

International Journal of Illich Studies

Founded in 2009, the International Journal of Illich Studies (IJIS) was an open access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to engaging the thought and writing of Ivan Illich and his circle. IJIS ceased publication as of 2021 and is no longer accepting submissions.

New Errands: The Undergraduate Journal of American Studies

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                    of New Errands colophon, showing journal title in black text on a white background above
                    the Eastern American Studies Association logo

Seeking to develop the next generation of Americanists, New Errands: The Undergraduate Journal of American Studies’ mission is to provide a venue for the publication of important original scholarship by emerging young scholars and to provide a teaching resource for instructors of American Studies looking for exemplary work to use in the classroom. New Errands is jointly published by the Eastern American Studies Association and the American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg.

Occasional Papers in Anthropology

The Occasional Papers in Anthropology series was established in 1965 with an enduringly valuable research report by William Sanders, Cultural Ecology of the Teotihuacan Valley.  This work and others originally published in print for the series are now available on this journal site, with support from editor Susan Toby Evans.

Penn State Journal of Medicine

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                    Medicine colophon, showing the journal name in white text next to the Penn State University mark
                    against a slate background

The research published within the Penn State Journal of Medicine (PSJM), which was founded in 2019, is the work of students that allows for advancement of medical education via clinical outcome, basic science, medical education, quality improvement, health systems research, and any other research that may be of importance to the clinical field. The audience of PSJM includes medical students, residents, fellows, attending physicians, other clinical faculty, clinical scientists, and any other interested readers at the Penn State College of Medicine and beyond the College of Medicine.

Penn State University Libraries Magazine

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                    journal's name written on spines in white

The mission of the Penn State University Libraries’ Magazine’s mission was to represent the PSU Libraries and feature student work across all Penn State campuses, spotlighting students’ creative work, promoting Library news, and connecting the Penn State student body with their Libraries and each other. The Penn State Libraries Magazine ceased publication as of 2024 and is no longer accepting submissions.

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, a peer-reviewed journal, provides a forum for scholarship on public rhetoric, civic writing, service-learning, and community literacy. Originally founded as a venue for teachers, researchers, students and community partners to share research and discuss the theoretical, political and ethical implications of community-based writing and writing instruction, Reflections publishes a lively collection of scholarship on public rhetoric and civic writing, occasional essays and stories both from and about community writing and literacy projects, interviews with leading workers in the field, and reviews of current scholarship touching on these issues and topics.

Rural Policy - The Research Bulletin of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania

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                    the town of Jim Thorpe, PA during autumn, surrounded by trees with fall colors

The Center for Rural Pennsylvania publishes Rural Policy - The Research Bulletin of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania twice a year to make its sponsored research more widely available. Contributing authors are faculty members from The Pennsylvania State University, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities, and the regional campuses of the University of Pittsburgh. The Center's research is publicly funded and is in the public domain.

SOAR: Society of Americanists Review

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Drawing on scholarship in the fields of history, literary studies, media and communications, anthropology, folkloristics, sociology, and American studies, among others, SOAR: Society of Americanists Review's mission was to bring together an interdisciplinary and international conversation on the history, culture, and social life of the United States. SOAR ceased publication at the end of 2023 and is no longer accepting submissions.

Stroke Clinician

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                    colophon, with the journal name in white letters against a yellow-orange background

Stroke Clinician publishes original papers focused on clinical practice and clinical research related to the field of stroke and neurovascular diseases. Stroke Clinician also features review articles, pro/con debate controversies, protocol and methods papers, selected case reports and other original articles deemed to be of interest to our stroke practitioner readers. The journal’s mission is to support the dissemination of neurovascular evidence-based practice knowledge that enriches the contribution of interprofessional stroke clinicians.

Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal

Transformative Dialogues (TD) is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of teaching and learning in post-secondary education. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary intellectual debate and inquiry, exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. These conversations are intended to span a wide range of reflections on the processes of teaching and learning ranging from the scholarly to scholarship. The international dialogues are focused on improving faculty and, therefore, student learning, and critical thought processes in their current and future lifelong learning. The journal promotes the principle that strategies, techniques, and methods of teaching and learning transcend the boundaries of specific subject fields.

Pennsylvania History Repository Journals

Journal of Erie Studies

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The Journal of Erie Studies is an important local publication that examined the history and culture of Erie County, PA. It was first published in the spring of 1972 by the Hagen History Center, with partner organization the Jefferson Educational Society, and published its final issue in 2019. This repository provides access to the full archive of issues published during its run.

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies

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Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies is a quarterly journal that publishes the best of current scholarship on the history of the Commonwealth and the region. In addition to regular articles, the journal features annotated documents, book reviews, and reviews of museum exhibits, films, and historical collections. Published since 1934, Pennsylvania History is the official journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA). This journal repository, created by the Pennsylvania State University Libraries Open Publishing and Penn State University Press in cooperation with the PHA, is the official digital archive of Pennsylvania History. Here readers will find all back issues of the journal beginning with Vol. 1 (1934) and continuing up to the most recent available volume, with a 5-year moving wall before Open Access. One volume will be added to the archive each year.

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB) is a quarterly scholarly journal and one of the country’s most prestigious state historical publications. Published since 1877 by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, it is an important resource for those interested in a scholarly approach to state and local history, industry, genealogy, culture, and related subjects. On this site, readers have access to a century of back issues of the journal, beginning with Vol. 31 (1907). One new volume is added to the digital archive each year, with a 5-year moving wall from the original publication date before Open Access.

Western Pennsylvania History

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Western Pennsylvania History is an important regional journal with extensively illustrated articles that cover numerous subjects including history, archaeology, cultural interests, sports, literature, architecture, railroading, folk art, and much more. It is published by the Senator John Heinz History Center and has been a source of information and scholarship since 1918. The journal was originally published as Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, and in the 1990s as Pittsburgh History. This electronic edition is available through the collaboration of the publisher and the Penn State University Libraries. One year of prior issues will be added to this electronic archive each year.