This week (21-27 October) is Open Access Week – an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. This year’s theme is ‘Community over Commercialisation’ which prioritises approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.
Committed to the wide and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge Law, Technology and Humans encourages scholarship that reflects on how technology is changing law, regulation and normative conduct and also how law, regulation and normative conduct effects local and global challenges and opportunities from technological change. Importantly, the journal’s research and scholarship is accessible to all, without paywalls and via best practice in open access practices.
Authors retain copyright and articles are licenced via Creative Commons to make published articles more readily available and useable. There are no APCs (Article Processing Charges). Authors can submit and publish at no cost.
The Journal publishes three issues annually and is supported by a small editorial team advised by an international editorial board. The Journal is hosted in the School of Law, QUT and is part of a small collection of open access journals in QUT Open Press.
Law, Technology and Humans is indexed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). A DOAJ Membership is a clear statement of intent and proves a commitment to quality, peer-reviewed open access. DOAJ is co-author to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (Principles) and DOAJ members are expected to follow these principles as a condition of membership.
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to over 21,000 high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Only 8% of journals indexed by DOAJ have been awarded the Seal, and of these only ten journals from Australasia have the Seal.
All queries related to the Journal can be sent to Chief Editor Professor Kieran Tranter lawtechhum@qut.edu.au.
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