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Philosophy of Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education

For more information, please see Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education will accept a wide variety of media and styles for initial submission to foster communication among a wide variety of art, design, and media disciplines.

To speed up the double-blind peer review process, ensure that your submission does not include the names and institutional affiliations of the contributors, including in submission document file names.

For references to other works, the editorial team has these recommendations to speed up the process from initial submission to final publication:

    Use APA style for citations, with author and date in the text.
    Use footnotes only for additional information.
    Create a separate "References" page at the end of the submission.

See previously published articles for examples in Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education for formatting and use of citations.

The editorial team will work with contributors to create a PDF for final publication. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.


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Open Access

Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education is an Open Access publication; all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication. With few exceptions, articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, where readers may reuse the materials with proper citation to the original.

Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education does not charge submission or any other form of author fees.

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Publication Agreement

Articles in Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education are freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly cited. For more information, visit the Creative Commons licenses page.

Copyright is retained by the author(s). Where an author is prevented from being the copyright holder (i.e., U.S. government employees), the copyright line and license statement in individual articles will be adjusted. Please contact the editors during or immediately after submission of your paper.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the Digital Scholarship@UNLV website and/or software agree not to misuse the Digital Scholarship@UNLV service or software in any way.

The failure of Digital Scholarship@UNLV to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between Digital Scholarship@UNLV and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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