About the Journal

Mission

EJOPA seeks to advance the status of scholarship focused on public affairs and civic engagement topics by providing an academic, nationally refereed venue for such work.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content. Content is freely available and charges no cost to users or institutions. Submissions are free to all and readership is free to all. 

Aims and Scope

EJOPA is focused on scholarship related to civic engagement in the public arena and, in particular, to the following themes:

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, problem solving, and leadership related to citizenship and civic engagement
• Considerations of citizenship and what it means to be a citizen, including global citizenship and eCitizenship
• The relationship between social media and civic engagement
• Assessment of civic-engagement projects

Manuscript Submissions

We primarily welcome manuscript submissions for themed issues. We also welcome manuscript submissions on a rolling basis as long as the subject matter aligns with the aims and scope stated above.

Authors should upload submissions to our internal editing website:

Submit manuscript

Final manuscripts will be subject to copy-editing and proofing prior to publication.

Editorial Process

Manuscripts that are intended to be published as research are double-blind, peer-reviewed. Reviewers are selected based on their expertise in the manuscript in question’s field of study. 

1. An editor will read each submission to determine which ones will go forward for review.
2. Reviewers will read and comment on the submission.
3. Reviewers will recommend whether or not they believe that a given submission should be accepted in EJOPA with minor or major revisions or, alternatively, rejected.
4. Editors, informed by reviews, will determine whether or not to publish a given submission.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright of their work. Articles published in the eJournal of Public Affairs are distributed with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license and authors hold the copyright to their work. 

Users have the right to share or adapt the article for non-compensatory purposes, as long as the author(s) and source are cited. Permission is not needed for these uses. For permission for other uses or questions about use, please contact the author(s).

Archiving and Repository

EJOPA uses Crossref’s DOI-based archival system, prioritizing LOCKSS and CLOCKSS services. 

The journal also used a Digital Commons-based repository through Missouri State University called “BearWorks.”

Self-Archiving

The copyright of each article belongs to the author(s). Each author the right to deposit the article in their institutional repository or any suitable subject repository, provided they do not breach the CC license.

Privacy

Names and email addresses used for EJOPA purposes will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.