Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

KE Studies is an online publication that focuses on creation, dissemination and access to knowledge goods. It is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on a number of specialties: sciences, technologies, public policies, the laws of intellectual property, business, free speech and privacy, telecommunications and other related knowledge disciplines.

The KE Studies journal will examine new developments, alternatives and social implications of markets for knowledge goods, including issues of production, dissemination and access to knowledge goods broadly defined, including medical innovation policies and legal issues, such as those relating to intellectual property polices, among others.

KE Studies will consider lengthy scholarly articles as well as short research papers and notes, and commentaries written by experts in various fields.

KE Studies strives to be a publication with relatively timely turn around, and encourages authors from all over the world. Articles will be formally published when the peer review and editing is finished.

Section Policies

Interview

Editors

David Serafino, Knowledge Ecology International

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

The article (or research note) is submitted in HTML, RichText, ODT, or MS Word by the author(s) who signs the publication agreement and sends it with the submission. Authors may propose 2 specific reviewers of their choice.

Step 1. The Managing Editor and the Editorial Team determine who will review the article, taking into account the author's selected reviewers.

Step 2. The Managing Editor then removes the author’s name from the document (to allow for blind review) and sends the article to the reviewer via the journal system.

Step 3. The Managing Editor will track the articles through the process of review, sending reminders if necessary. The review is then placed into the journal system by the reviewer.

Step 4. The Managing Editor and the Editorial Team consider the review and make the decision whether or not to publish the article.

Step 5. If the decision is not to publish it, then the author is informed and provided access to the review. If the decision is to publish, then the Editor so informs the author, provides the review, and asks the author to revise the article.

Step 6. The Managing Editor passes the revised article through the Editorial Team to ensure that the revisions are as requested.

Step 7. The article is then passed through three functions: copyediting (grammar, references), proofing (typographical errors, spelling errors), and layout (creating both an HTML and a PDF version of the article and loading these into the journal system when it is time to publish the article).

For other types of work, such as reviews, letters and commentaries, the editorial team will skip steps 2 and 3.

Publication Frequency

Individual items will be published as soon as they are ready, by adding them to the "current" volume's Table of Contents.

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.

Advisory Editorial Board

Philippe Aigrain
Nick Ashton-Hart
Carlos Correa
Peter Drahos
Georg C. F. Greve
Jean-Claude Guédon
Teresa Hackett
Gwen Hinze
Eddan Katz
Gaelle Krikorian
Hervé Le Crosnier
Sisule Musungu
Cecilia Oh
Achal Prabhala
Ellen ‘T Hoen
Luis Villarroel Villalon
Raquel Xalabarder

Knowledge Ecology Studies