AmeriQuests: Editorial Policies

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Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope
Section Policies
Peer Review Process
Publication Frequency
Open Access Policy
Archiving

Focus and Scope

AmeriQuests is a peer-reviewed multi and inter-disciplinary journal which will discuss issues relating to dislocation, relocation, migration, displacement, refugees, homelessness, crossing borders, storytelling, narrative analysis, multiculturalism, ethnic literatures, postcolonial studies and anthropology -- throughout the Americas. Given that state or legal intervention in these quests is generally contingent upon some kind of oral or written application or testimony, AmeriQuests places a strong emphasis upon the stories told by and about the people who embark upon, or are forced into, these quests, implicating research into such areas as life stories, storytelling, confession, translation, and the literature/law relationship.

We will consider articles written about quests undertaken within or through South America, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the US and Canada/Qu�bec, and upon issues relating to the crossing of borders as people move from one state to another. These �states� can be geographical, psychological, and social, so AmeriQuests will foster and promote strong work within and between departments and disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, law and medicine. A quest for America can also be a personal ambition, illustrated by John Donne�s description of America in the poem "To His Mistris Going to Bed":

Licence my roaving hands, and let them go,
Behind, before, above, between, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdome, safeliest when with one man man'd

This idea of an "america" as a desireable space is captured in the OED definition, which describes America as �a place which one longs to reach; an ultimate or idealized destination or aim; an object of personal ambition or desire�.

Section Policies

Articles
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Book Reviews
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Commentary
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Introduction
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Reactions
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	Robert Barsky, Vanderbilt University

Poetry
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Review Article
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Special Topics
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	This section will contain invited papers on special topics, conference proceedings, or other items that pertain to the journal's mission but may not fit entirely within the context of the particular issue being published.
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Peer Review Process

Each article in AmeriQuests is reviewed by 2 independent reviewers prior to acceptance for publication.

Publication Frequency

AmeriQuests includes issues which are peer-reviewed as well as contributions in the form of special issues, student issues, commissioned works, opinion pieces, and artwork which will be adjudicated as is appropriate to the medium.

AmeriQuests
ISSN: 1553-4316

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed Open Journal Systems, used to publish this journal, to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

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