Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (JSMI) exists to promote Irish musicological scholarship. Hence, one of its main goals is the presentation of musicological work related to Ireland. This notion encompasses, besides topics concerning Ireland and its music, articles by Irish authors or by authors based in Ireland. Yet this is just one focus and is not intended to exclude contributions of other kinds. Indeed, JSMI invites contributions from any area of research related to any kind of music, by authors of any nationality whether based in Ireland or not. This includes work resulting from interdisciplinary approaches.

The terms “musicology” and “musicological” are not intended to prefer any one tradition of scholarship over any other. It is the policy of the journal (as, indeed, it is of the Society) to embrace all traditions and disciplines of musicology, old and new, including ethnomusicology and critical musicology. JSMI does not promote any particular ideological viewpoint or methodology. The content of individual contributions does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors.

JSMI is intended to be a forum for both distinguished scholars and young musicologists, including postgraduate students.

 

Section Policies

Prelims

Editors
  • Paul Everett, University College Cork
Unchecked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Articles

Editors
  • Barra Boydell, NUI Maynooth
  • Gareth Cox, Mary Immaculate College, UL
  • Aileen Dillane, UL
  • Paul Everett, University College Cork
  • Wolfgang Marx, UCD
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Review articles

Editors
  • Gareth Cox, Mary Immaculate College, UL
  • Paul Everett, University College Cork
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Editors
  • Gareth Cox, Mary Immaculate College, UL
  • Paul Everett, University College Cork
Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Each article submitted to JSMI is assigned to an editor who will steer the article through the peer-review and editing stages, communicating with the author as necessary.

Each article is anonymously peer-reviewed by one reviewer selected by the Editorial Board. (In rare circumstances a second reviewer might be selected.) The typical outcomes of the review are:
(a) the article is accepted for publication (with minor revisions as recommended by the reviewer or editor);
(b) the article is not accepted for publication in its current form, but the author is invited to resubmit it following substantial revision;
(c) the article is not accepted.

 

Publication Frequency

JSMI is organized in one volume per year. An article is published in the current year's volume as soon as it is ready to be published.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of it 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 this system 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.

 


Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland    ISSN: 1649-7341
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Society for Musicology in Ireland