About
Focus and Scope
Digital Medievalist publishes work of original research and scholarship, theoretical articles on digital topics, notes on technological topics, commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, tutorials, and project reports. The journal also commissions reviews of books and major electronic sites and projects. All contributions are reviewed before publication by authorities in humanities computing. Submissions to Digital Medievalist should concern topics likely to be of interest to medievalists working with digital media, though they need not be exclusively medieval in focus. They should be of a length appropriate to the subject under discussion.
Publication Frequency
Digital Medievalist is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting the content publicly available.
Special collections of articles are welcome and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.
Open Access Policy
Digital Medievalist provides immediate access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Authors of published articles remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to a Creative Commons license agreement.
One of the benefits of open access publishing lies in others being able to re-use material. We believe that the greatest societal good is possible when people are free to re-distribute scholarship and to create derivative works. This is why we use the CC BY 4.0 license, under which others may re-use your work, on condition that they cite you.
If a more restrictive licence is required (for example, if you are reproducing third party material that cannot be reproduced under more open licences), please make this request upon submission in the ‘Comment to the Editor’ field or contact the Editor-in-Chief, stating the reasons why.
Archiving Policy
The publisher of Digital Medievalist, Open Library of Humanities (OLH), focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability.
OLH journals are indexed by the following services:
- Nordic list
- Google Scholar
- Chronos
- ExLibris
- EBSCO Knowledge Base
- JISC KB+
- SHERPA RoMEO
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- EBSCOHost
- OpenAire
- ScienceOpen
- Portico
In addition, all journals are available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.
To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.
If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please contact support@janeway.freshdesk.com.
Advertisement Policy
Digital Medievalist only displays advertisements that are of relevance to its scope and will be of interest to the readership (e.g. upcoming conferences). All advertising space is provided free of charge and the editor and publisher have the right to decline or withdraw adverts at any point.
If you wish to propose a potential advert then please contact the editorial team. All adverts are displayed in the right column of the journal and will need to fit a 120 pixel wide space. All advert images will have to be provided to the publisher.