Policies for Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Contents
- Philosophy of Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
- Who Can Submit?
- General Submission Rules
- Formatting Requirements
- Copyright and Open Access Permissions
Philosophy of Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
This peer-reviewed journal was created to make an innovative contribution to the on-going national effort to promote homeland security by providing an accessible, inexpensive, and responsive medium where knowledgeable researchers and practitioners publish research, exchange ideas, and discuss current issues and events.
Who Can Submit?
Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).
General Submission Rules
Any original work in the field of emergency management and homeland security can be submitted (see also the Aims and Scope page for Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management).
Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication.
In addition, by submitting material to Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, please contact the editors.
Formatting Requirements
The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management considers the rules governing the formatting of final submissions applicable to the initial submission; the intent is to have all articles in correct format and easy to read during the peer review process.
Note that authors are responsible for copy editing their work. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for bepress journals for specific guidance.
Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that bepress can convert to a PDF file.
It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable
Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that
documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software
configurations that readers may have.
Copyright and Open Access Permissions
As further described in our submission agreement, in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to The Berkeley Electronic Press all copyright in the article, subject to the expansive personal-use exceptions described below.
Attribution and Usage Policies
Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of The Berkeley Electronic Press, requires credit to The Berkeley Electronic Press as copyright holder (e.g., The Berkeley Electronic Press © 2008).
Personal-use Exceptions
The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from The Berkeley Electronic Press provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:
- Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
- Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series);
- Authors are allowed to deposit their articles to PubMedCentral and UKPubMedCentral twelve months after publication, which satisfies the open access mandates of all major government and foundation research grants. Bepress deposits the content of some journals automatically on behalf of authors; see http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/about.html to see if this applies in your case.
- Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author; and
- Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s).
People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact The Berkeley Electronic Press at .
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The failure of bepress to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between bepress and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.