Journal Collections

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education (Journals)

ISSN 1932-9253

The International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education (IJARE) is dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practices of non-competitive human aquatic professionals worldwide.

This peer-reviewed scholarly quarterly journal publishes significant non-competitive evidence-based human aquatic research findings, articulates unique and innovative ideas in aquatics, challenges current practices and proposed changes, and disseminates information about the latest and best use of aquatic equipment, facilities, and practices.

Due to the open access and electronic nature of the International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, we are welcoming proposals from reputable organizations and agencies for "special issues." Contact the Editor if you would like to explore a topic-based special issue.

International Journal of Playwork Practice (Journals)

ISSN 2689-9124

'Playwork' originated in the adventure playgrounds created in the middle of the 20th century to provide children's spaces within urban environments. Playwork practice is currently used by professionals working with children in an extensive range of international settings, from parks to prisons and deserts to development projects. The practice of playwork draws on a number of diverse disciplines for its theoretical and technical foundations, and playwork practice and its origins are studied by scholars from a wide range of fields.

International Journal of Playwork Practice is the official journal of PARS playwork practice. The journal aims to advance playwork research and practice by providing the first ever interdisciplinary platform for the publication and dissemination of relevant scholarship to playwork practice. IJPP bridges the playwork theory-practice divide by facilitating practitioner access to relevant research, and also enables researchers interested in playwork to access a hitherto inaccessible field of practice and its literature.

International ResearchScape Journal (Journals)

ISSN 2372-1774

The International ResearchScape Journal seeks to encourage research with an international focus among undergraduate students at Bowling Green State University.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience (Journals)

ISSN 2642-9276

Welcome to the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience (JADE). JADE is a peer-reviewed, scholarly, online journal dedicated to the exploration of athlete development and the athlete experience. JADE welcomes manuscripts from new and seasoned authors who have the desire to share knowledge through the dissemination of published works online.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience (JADE) is to advance, promote, and disseminate original empirical research surrounding issues concerning athletes in high school through professional sports both in the United States and abroad. This interdisciplinary journal will include a wide variety of topics and methodological approaches to examine the development of athletes. The research that is published in this journal will be both practical and theoretical in nature.

Submissions to this journal that are cross-disciplinary and have clear applied and real-world uses are encouraged. All articles are peer-reviewed and intended for an audience of both academics and practitioners, and should be written for the lay reader.

Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences: Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association (Journals)

ISSN 2376-9289

Welcome to the Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences: Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association. The JSMAHS is a nationally indexed, peer-reviewed, scholarly, online journal dedicated to the exploration of sports medicine and allied health professional practice, research, and education. The JSMAHS is indexed through both the Directory of Open Access Journals and EBSCO. The JSMAHS continues to welcome manuscripts from new and seasoned authors who have the desire to share knowledge through the dissemination of published works online.

Mission Statement

It is the mission of the Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences as the Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association to provide support to the scholarship of the organization, its members, and stakeholders.JSMAHS assists with the dissemination of scholarly work of researchers from all levels. The JSMAHS provides peer-reviewed and relevant research related to Sports Medicine and Allied Health Care professions.

La BloGoteca de Babel (Journals)

ISSN 2694-4383

Érase una vez un joven estudiante que se puso a escribir una redacción asignada por su profesora. Érase una vez una profesora de español presentando la asignatura de la misma redacción a su clase. Érase una vez dos personas, ese mismo estudiante y dicho profesor, que se preguntaron a la vez, ¿Para quién? Y a continuación, ¿Para qué?

Demasiadas veces a lo largo de los años, nos hemos encontrado escribiendo redacciones dirigidas y destinadas a los ojos de una sola alma. Esta misma—nuestra querida profesora—se encuentra leyendo, juzgando, calificando y al final lamentablemente tirando—sea dicha redacción una de calidad normal, pésima o sobresaliente—ese trabajo en la canasta del olvido. Una situación lamentable, pero, en fin, en las circunstancias de antaño, quizá sin remedio. Hoy día, con la ayuda de la tecnología de las redes, los blogs y los wikis, ya no existe por qué escribir y corregir hacia “la nada”. El trabajo—sangre, sudor, (sonrisas) y lágrimas—del estudiante debe y puede servir de algo. Y la profesora ya lo puede y lo debe enseñar con la intención de que el estudiante, a través de su trabajo, entre en diálogo más allá de su despacho u oficina, y de que cada redacción sea vista como una verdadera comunicación con un publico de iguales.

Esta es la intención de la BloGoteca de Babel, una revista de trabajos estudiantiles, trabajos una vez escritos solo para una clase, para una profesora o profesor, pero que, por su alta calidad ahora tendrán una voz y un público mucho más amplio. En este primer volumen se ven trabajos escritos de estudiantes de una variedad de experiencias con el español, desde redacciones preparadas para SPAN 3520 hasta un dossier de trabajos finales de estudiantes graduados llevando a cabo investigaciones desde España. En cada uno de los trabajos, el estudiante puede encontrar ejemplos de las mejores ideas y la mejor expresión de ellas de los estudiantes del año académico 2009-2010 en BGSU.

Pero mucho más allá que una muestra de lo mejor, nuestra esperanza es que con la colocación de estos ensayos se inicie una manera de acercamiento a la investigación de la literatura, cultura y lengua española en BGSU. Esperamos que la investigación por parte de estudiantes a todos niveles del español en BG sea parte de un diálogo que transcienda los límites del tiempo y del espacio. Con la tecnología, en particular la de los blogs, esperamos crear un diálogo mucho más allá de la “revista tradicional”. Por ende, invitamos no sólo a lectura de los ensayos seleccionados, sino a compartir sus comentarios y criticas. Y luego comentarios y críticas de los comentarios. Anticipamos así, una revista que funciona tanto como una revista tradicional como además un espacio “wiki” de desarrollo de ideas.

En fin, esperamos la colaboración de todos con la esperanza de que las conversaciones desarrolladas en nuestras aulas y nuestros ordenadores no terminen nunca.

Y ahora, a leer,
Pedro Porbén
Nathan Richardson
Valeria Grinberg Pla
La BloGoteca de Babel.

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (Journals)

ISSN 2375-7876

The Mid-Western Educational Researcher (MWER) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal that publishes research articles examining educational issues and practices, book and media reviews, commentaries, and articles that address areas such as mentorship and teacher research. MWER seeks strong manuscripts addressing a wide range of topics in education.

The journal publishes quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, meta-analysis and meta-synthesis studies, and accepts submissions in six different categories: feature articles, graduate student scholarship, voices from the classroom, commentaries, book/media reviews, and mentoring corner.

The journal also periodically solicits proposals for special issues and special sections of an issue. In addition, such proposals can be submitted any time, regardless of whether there is an open call.

See the Aims and Scope for more detailed information.

Welcome to MWER’s new website! We recently made the exciting move to Scholarworks, but some of our previous issues are still on their way over here from our old website. In the meantime, you can access past MWER issues at www.mwera.org/MWER/archives.html

Personnel Assessment and Decisions (Journals)

ISSN 2377-8822

Personnel Assessment and Decisions is the official journal of the International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC). The journal welcomes any studies or reviews related to staffing organizations and assessing its members. This might include (but is not limited to) research on:

  • applicant recruitment and assessment
  • selection tools (e.g., interviews, tests, work samples)
  • selection decisions
  • on-boarding and training
  • job search and choice
  • performance assessment and employee development
  • job analysis and competency modeling
Considerable emphasis will be placed on applied research that is novel, accessible, important, and newsworthy (think Psychological Science for personnel psychology). Articles should have practical relevance and be of broad interest. The journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO).


Notice: At this time, we are only accepting submissions for Special Issues and invited articles.


News (05/16/2023) Volume 9, Issue 1 has been published! This issue can be found here.

News (11/10/2022) Volume 8, Issue 2 has been published! This issue can be found here.

News (04/06/2022) We are announcing a call for papers for a special issue on innovations in assessment center research and practice which can be found here.The submission deadline for this issue is October 1, 2022.

News (03/28/2022) Volume 8, Issue 1 has been published! This issue can be found here.

News (07/15/2021) We are pleased to announce that the journal is now indexed in Business Source Ultimate, an EBSCO database!

The COSMA Journal (Journals)

The Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) promotes and recognizes excellence in sport management education. As an extension of COSMA as a specialized accrediting body, The COSMA Journal cultivates and disseminates scholarly research and commentary to promote and recognize excellence in sport management education.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete overview of the journal.

Visions in Leisure and Business (Journals)

ISSN 2690-6708

Visions in Leisure and Business is a journal dedicated to exploring innovative approaches to help identify and solve personal services issues. The primary purpose is to explore concerns that represent popular culture factors that influence the individual as well as the organization. This interface has and will continue to effect the development of the quality of a society's lifestyles.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

ScholarWorks is an open access publishing platform managed by Bowling Green State University Libraries (UL). For over 10 years, the UL has provided services that enable BGSU faculty to publish peer-reviewed faculty, practitioner, and student journals in their disciplines. The UL operates under a diamond open access model, which means ScholarWorks journals do not charge fees to authors or readers.

Appalachian Associates published Visions in Leisure and Business as a subscription-only print journal from 1982 to 2003. In 2020, Visions resumed publication as an online only open access journal on ScholarWorks. Authors who publish in Visions retain their copyright and license their articles under a Creative Commons license.

News

The Visions editors have digitized the publications Recreation Management and Employee Service Management. The national organization that published these materials discontinued these publications. In an effort to ensure that these materials are not lost and the topic of employee services continues to receive emphasis in the future, the Visions editors sought permission from the Research Foundation (still active) of the organization. Randy Schools is the individual who made this collection possible. He granted permission for Visions to digitize the materials and make them available via the Internet Archive. The digitization is record quality, and the Visions editors are hoping to improve the quality of the digitization as time moves forward.

This has been a laborious project that will continue in the future, because several issues of the publications are missing. If you know anyone who has these missing issues, please contact the Visions editors so we can complete the collection.

Visions will dedicate some of its future issues to this topic to explore future developments. Contributors who have varied interest in this topic should contact the Visions editors, as we want to establish a scholarship network related to this theme.

Visions in Leisure and Business Monographs (Journals)

Visions in Leisure and Business Monographs is dedicated to exploring innovative approaches to help identify and solve personal services issues. The publication is devoted to a single theme or issue that explores the topic in-depth. The length of the manuscript is not an issue because the quality of the analysis is the primary concern.

The primary purpose is to investigate the ramifications of factors that influence the individual as well as the organization. The focus is on causal relationships.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

News

The Visions editors have digitized the publications Recreation Management and Employee Service Management. The national organization that published these materials discontinued these publications. In an effort to ensure that these materials are not lost and the topic of employee services continues to receive emphasis in the future, the Visions editors sought permission from the Research Foundation (still active) of the organization. Randy Schools is the individual who made this collection possible. He granted permission for Visions to digitize the materials and make them available via the Internet Archive. The digitization is record quality, and the Visions editors are hoping to improve the quality of the digitization as time moves forward.

This has been a laborious project that will continue in the future, because several issues of the publications are missing. If you know anyone who has these missing issues, please contact the Visions editors so we can complete the collection.

Visions will dedicate some of its future issues to this topic to explore future developments. Contributors who have varied interest in this topic should contact the Visions editors, as we want to establish a scholarship network related to this theme.

World Music Textbook (Journals)

ISSN 2767-4215

The World Music Textbook is a new collaborative effort to create a free and broadly accessible resource for the general public, educators, students, and researchers alike. Its open collections of scholarly, peer-reviewed writing and multimedia materials focus on increasing access to underrepresented voices, writing styles, and audiences, all with undergraduate students and a broad readership in mind. See About the Project or contact editors@worldmusictextbook.org for more details.

WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing (Journals)

ISSN 2692-5958

WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing is a dynamic venue that highlights innovative, risk-taking writing projects created for WRIT courses in the University Writing Program of BGSU. The journal provides students across WRIT courses an opportunity to share their work and, in so doing, brings attention to highlight academic writing as an intellectual and creative enterprise. WRIT is a celebration of academic writing broadly writ.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

About Journal Publishing

What type of journals can be included in ScholarWorks@BGSU?

University Libraries hosts and publishes open access journals with a BGSU affiliation. The BGSU affiliation could be through its faculty, students, programs, or centers. All student-led publications must have a faculty sponsor. Though peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are expected to be the norm, proposals for practitioner journals, magazines and newsletters will all be considered.

What does it mean to publish an open access journal?

Readers can access an open access journal’s content online at no cost. Peer-reviewed open access journals expose research to a global community and allow researchers from any organization to participate in scholarly activities without barriers.

What are the fees associated with publishing a journal on ScholarWorks@BGSU?

There are no fees for publishing a journal on ScholarWorks@BGSU, though new journals must have an affiliation with BGSU (for example, a member of the editorial board who is BGSU faculty and is willing to participate in the set-up process).

How do I begin the process?

When you are ready, complete a ScholarWorks@BGSU Journal Proposal Form. At this point, you will need to meet readiness requirements, which include a journal name, the journal aims & scope, a managing editor, an editorial board, and publication procedures. If your proposal is accepted (1-2 weeks), you will then go through the following steps:

  1. Meet with a ScholarWorks@BGSU representative (1-2 weeks)
  2. Complete a Memorandum of Understanding (1 week)
  3. Work with library staff and bepress to design the look and feel of your journal website (4-6 weeks)
  4. Complete bepress platform training (2 weeks)
  5. Write/refine your journal policies and add them to the journal’s demo site (2-4 weeks)
  6. Launch the journal and put out a Call for Papers!

See the Process for Publishing a Journal in ScholarWorks@BGSU for detailed information about each step.

How will people find your journal?

ScholarWorks@BGSU is on the bepress Digital Commons platform, which is optimized to provide higher results through search engines such as Google. University Libraries will apply for an ISSN for your journal, make application for your journal to be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) if appropriate, and assign digital object identifiers (DOIs) to each article as issues are published. DOAJ content is available in a number of standard library databases and search tools.

Additional Questions?

See the Process for Publishing a Journal in ScholarWorks@BGSU for more detailed information about what to expect from the journal publishing process. Please contact Emily Gattozzi () if you have specific questions about journal publishing on ScholarWorks@BGSU or you would like to discuss your journal.