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Features are determined by the Editorial team, often in consultation with the Advisory Board. Features may include, for example, invited papers of a topical nature, interviews with key scholars and practitioners, perspective pieces or exemplary peer reviewed submissions.
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Articles should have a strong empirical or theoretical foundation and present new knowledge or findings, or report on the application of existing knowledge to a new domain. Full papers are required at the time of submission and if accepted by the editorial team will undergo a double-blind peer review. Refereed papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages including title, abstract, body and references.
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Practice Reports should report on practical initiatives or the early outcomes of research projects. They are an opportunity to focus on the applied aspects of students’ tertiary learning initiatives and innovations. Practice Reports undergo a review from the Editorial team regarding suitability and should not exceed seven (7) pages including title, author details, abstract, body and references.
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Emerging Initiatives also report on practical initiatives or the early outcomes of research projects and are determined by the quality of the description of what is being done or proposed and how the emerging initiative builds on or extends current practice or knowledge. These are published as part of the special issue related to the STARS Conference and are reviewed by the Editorial team regarding suitability.
Please download the Student Success Author Guidelines for a full outline of criteria and format requirements here.
Authors can submit and publish at no cost. There are no APCs (Article Processing Charges)
All submitted papers should be original, unpublished, and not in consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission to Student Success.
All articles will be refereed in a double-blind review process by at least two reviewers with expertise in the relevant subject area.
If your article is already accessible on a pre-print server this may compromise our double-blind review policy - please email the Journal Manager for further information journal@unistars.org
All practice reports will be reviewed by an editorial team prior to being selected for publication.
Suspected plagiarism in a submission:
Student Success uses iThenticate - plagiarism detection software - and may utilise the software if the editorial team or the reviewer/s have concerns about original content.
Student Success's Peer Review process can be found here.
The Journal will consider submissions already available as a preprint on condition that the author agrees to the below:
In APA 7th Edition the correct citation and referencing style is as follows:
Citation:
(Author, Year)
Reference:
Author. (Year). Title. Title of the online repository. URL or DOI
Please email the Managing Editor for further information journal@unistars.org
Student Success is a free to read, free to publish, institutionally supported journal.
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.
Student Success defines open access according to the definition provided by Open Access Australasia:
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. Through licensing via an open license (usually a Creative Commons License), freely available outputs can also be legally shared and reused. Hence, open access is more than just free access.
Additionally, the Journal recognises the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) principles and recommendations for open access (updated in March 2022) which note that “…OA is not an end in itself, but a means to other ends, above all, to the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of research.”
An information page summarising Open Access can be found here
Authors retain copyright and articles are licenced via Creative Commons to make published articles more readily available and useable
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.
• Papers must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal. If your article is already accessible on a pre-print server this may compromise our double-blind review policy - please email the Journal Manager for further information journal@unistars.org
• The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other co-authors. Further correspondence and galley proofs will be sent to the corresponding author(s) before publication unless otherwise indicated.
• It is a condition for submission of a paper that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.
• All articles submitted will also be checked for plagiarism. Authors retain copyright and articles are licenced via Creative Commons to make published articles more readily available and useable. There are no APCs (Article Processing Charges). Authors can submit and publish at no cost.
• Special Editions also require blind peer reviewing and are subject to the same editorial policy.
• All production decisions are made by the Chief Editor in consultation with the Journal Manager. Decisions of the Chief Editor are final and not subject to review or appeal.
Authors are permitted (and encouraged) to post their accepted work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions (accepted for publication) posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in Student Success as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.
This journal currently utilises 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. The Journal title is included in a digital archive https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1838-2959# and has a deposit policy with Sherpa Romeo at https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/31050
This Journal has a Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Student Success has aligned with the ethos and best practice guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for dealing with ethical issues in journal publishing and has adopted the COPE guidelines which the journal members (Advisory Board, editors and the journal manager) have agreed meet the purposes and objectives of the Journal.
A summary of the basic principles and guidelines for peer reviewers, authors and editors are provided.
COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
Responsible Research Publication: International Standards for Authors
Responsible Research Publication: International Standards for Editors
Suspected plagiarism in a submission:
Student Success uses iThenticate - plagiarism detection software - and may utilise the software if the editorial team or the reviewer/s have concerns about original content.
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