Focus and Scope

New Scholar is a peer-reviewed online journal of emerging scholarship and intellectual practice from the humanities, creative arts and social sciences. Based in Australia, but with international scope, the journal has a particular focus on new scholarship: work by ‘early career researchers’ as well as innovative or even radical interventions from more established scholars. New Scholar encourages original approaches to disciplinary methodologies, as well as interdisciplinary scholarship and the breaking down of traditional disciplinary boundaries. New Scholar also encourages creative scholarly works. The journal aims to facilitate scholarly exchange and the strengthening of international research communities.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Technical or Research Reports

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Commentaries

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Technical or Research Notes

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

 

New Scholar Journal Policies

Prospective contributors are encouraged to read recent issues of the journal.

New Scholar is an open access journal, published electronically. Material published in New Scholar is freely available in the public domain. New Scholar publishes at least one issue per annum.

 New Scholar accepts unsolicited scholarly articles, review articles, short commentaries, technical or research notes, technical or research reports and reviews of creative and scholarly works for consideration. Please note that New Scholar does not provide review copies of works. Submissions of other forms of contemporary intellectual production (for example, work with a creative component such as ficto-criticism) will be considered for publication, so long as the dominant mode is scholarly and the work is intended for an academic audience. All submissions must be previously unpublished and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All papers published in New Scholar (with the exception of reviews) are subject to a process of single-blind peer review by a minimum of two referees.  At least one referee for each article will be an academic reviewer external to the Editorial Board. Wherever possible, we shall seek to have a referee who is a specialist in a related field, and one from a different field. New Scholar editors reserve the right to decline submissions that do not fall within the remit of the journal.

Submissions must be made via the New Scholar website. Submissions that don’t conform to the Style Guide will not be considered for publication.  Papers must be previously unpublished and not currently under consideration for any other publication.

New Scholar does not pay contributors for their work. However, contributors retain the copyright for work published in New Scholar and may therefore republish the work elsewhere after initial publication.

Written permission for copyright protected material included in articles must be secured by contributors prior to submission. A copy of such permission must be submitted with the article as a supplementary file.

Issues of New Scholar are themed. At present, one general issue is published per calendar year. Deadlines for submission of articles will be advertised on this website within the Call for Papers for each issue.

Unsolicited articles which do not address specific themes and which are submitted outside of the deadlines will be considered for possible inclusion in future issues. However, the Editors cannot guarantee that notification regarding articles submitted outside of deadlines will be as prompt as notification for articles submitted for particular issues.

Publication Frequency

Issues of New Scholar are themed.  At present, one general issue is published per calendar year. Deadlines for submission of articles will be advertised on this website within the Call for Papers for each issue.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.