Submissions cannot have been previously published nor be under consideration at another journal, but we welcome submissions of papers that have been loaded onto preprint servers as long as authors retain copyright to the preprint and any works developed from it. When you submit to KULA, you should declare that a preprint is available and provide the link to the preprint. If your submission is published, please update the information associated with the preprint to indicate that the final version has been published in KULA and link to the final published version using the assigned DOI. Contributors are also welcome to deposit versions of their work in institutional or other repositories.
We reserve the right to reject submissions that do not demonstrate respect and sensitivity in addressing subjects that pose a risk of harm to marginalized communities. We also reserve the right to remove articles after publication if we learn that an author has expressed discriminatory views that conflict with our commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and reconciliation.
Contributors are free to decide what constitutes authorship for their submissions. We recognize that much knowledge is social and community-based and that scholarship is often a collective activity. Contributors listed, therefore, might include collaborators who did not necessarily contribute to the writing of the manuscript but who were co-creators in other valuable ways (e.g., student research assistants, community partners, Elders and Knowledge Keepers). We also do not expect authors’ names to be listed in terms of ranked authorship. We invite authors to state explicitly in their submission how each author contributed to the work using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CrediT).
However, all contributors listed must have agreed to publish the manuscript and given approval to have their names appear on it. The corresponding author is the primary contact for the editorial team and is responsible for ensuring that all contributors have agreed to be listed as co-authors on the submission. The corresponding author is also responsible for keeping their collaborators updated on developments during review, editing, and production.
Contributors must state if they have any competing interests, including gifts, private funding, or payment from an organization or person related to the subject of their work, relevant board memberships, or close relationships.
If peer reviewers have a conflict of interest, they are expected to notify the editors-in-chief as soon as possible.
KULA editorial board members may submit papers to the journal during their terms. Members will submit their work according to regular journal guidelines, and their manuscripts will undergo anonymous peer review. Their membership on the board will be disclosed in a competing interests statement in their submission.
Editors and peer reviewers keep information regarding submissions confidential. They do not disclose details about the work under review or being edited to anyone except the contributors and editorial team.
Authors grant KULA the right of first publication of their work but retain copyright, with their work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Under that license, others may use, reproduce, and share the article according to the CC BY 4.0 license agreement.
Authors can 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 a repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in KULA.
Authors grant permission for their work to be indexed in full text form in commercial indexes and non-commercial indexes.
Contributors will always have the opportunity to approve the final copyedited version of their submission and its metadata before it goes to typesetting. They will also be asked to sign off on the proofs of their submission once it has been typeset. Requests for minor changes post-publication can be accommodated in some cases but should not be for stylistic reasons.
If you believe that an article requires a correction, please contact kulajournal@uvic.ca. Depending on the nature of the error, the editorial team will determine if a correction can be made. A correction may involve updating the original article (e.g., for minor typos, metadata errors, name changes), publishing a new version of the article (for substantive changes), and/or issuing an erratum. For author name changes, we will do our best (following COPE’s guidelines) to make these changes as invisible as possible. In the case of retractions, a retraction notice will be posted, and the article’s DOI will point to the retraction notice.
Please note that once an article has been published and disseminated on Érudit, our dissemination platform, it is subject to Érudit’s Policy on Post-Dissemination Corrections, which outlines the implications of issuing post-dissemination corrections for indexing and citation. For the most part, Érudit refuses post-dissemination corrections and recommends publishing an erratum in a subsequent issue.
Please note that we cannot issue a correction without notifying the author(s) of the article in question.
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is published by the University of Victoria Libraries. We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
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