Information For Authors

The Student Success Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, scholarly publication exploring the experiences of students in tertiary education. The Journal publishes three issues per year and there are no APCs (article processing charges).

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the Journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the Journal prior to submitting, or if already registered can simply log in. When submitting we ask you to read and agree to the Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

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. There are no submission or processing costs associated with the Journal.

Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the Journal.

Articles in this journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY). This is to get more legal certainty about what readers can do with published articles, and thus a wider dissemination and archiving, which in turn makes publishing with this journal more valuable for you, the authors.

Student Success is listed in the following indexes, aggregators and databases:

• Scopus - the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature
• China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) - the largest and most-used academic online library in China
• DOAJ – an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals
• EBSCO – EBSCOhost Research Databases
• ERIC - an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education
• Google Scholar – a database that indexes websites and files of a scholarly nature
• Informit (A+ Education) – Australasian aggregator of bibliographic databases and journals
• Paperity – a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access journals and papers
• ProQuest – world’s largest, multidisciplinary full-text database
• ScienceOpen-  a professional networking platform for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it
• Trove (National Library of Australia) - an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full text digital resources originally published and made publicly available in Australia
• Ulrichsweb  - Ulrich's™ is an authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,00 periodicals of all types academic and scholarly journals
• Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) - the world's largest collection of research data, publications, and patents.

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