Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work
About the Journal
Altitude: an e-journal of emerging humanities work is a peer reviewed journal of emerging innovative and creative work in the humanities. Altitude is committed to the democratisation of writing, research and knowledge, and to experimentation with new journal practices. It brings emerging and experienced scholars into discussion with writers and thinkers outside the academy. We use web-based open-access technologies to provide access to research (includes audio and visual material), and to extend the parameters of intellectual exchange. Altitude particularly supports early career researchers from non-English speaking backgrounds who would like to and choose to publish in English to share their research.
Altitude was founded in 2000. It was published online from issues 1 (2000) to 8 (2007) through the API Network at Curtin University. It was relaunched by Dr Clifton Evers and Dr Emily Potter with a new site and agenda in 2011 with the support of Institute for Creative and Digital Cultures at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China and the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.
ISSN 1444-1160
Disseminating
We are making efforts to disseminate the journal content as widely as possible.The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, maintained by Lund University Libraries. This listing may mean that the journal is listed also in the catalog of your institution's library. If the journal is not listed in the catalog of your institution's library, we encourage you to request that it be listed. Journal articles are included in a long time preservation project that the DOAJ service is running together with the National Library in the Hague, Netherlands. As from 2009-04-01 uploaded PDF's are long time preserved at the e-Depot in the Netherlands (http://www.kb.nl/e-Depot).
Open Access Policy
Open Access enables authors to obtain the maximum possible exposure for their work. Freely available papers are read more, cited more, and have more impact than ones available only to paid subscribers. As an experiment, enter a research topic into a search engine like Google and see how many links you obtain to papers published in traditional journals. You will find that most references are to working papers, not to published papers, because working papers are freely available.
The advent of the web has made free dissemination of research feasible and financially viable. Because existing specialty journals obtain revenues from selling subscriptions, primarily to libraries, access to the research they publish is limited. The attractive revenue stream that such subscriptions provide makes it unlikely that these journals will convert to Open Access. Thus a need exists for new refereed Open Access journals to replace existing journals. We believe that the establishment of Open Access journals will lead others to establish Open Access journals for many sub-fields and specialities, reclaiming full control for the profession of its research output. We hope that this will lead the profession to a new norm in which all research is freely available.
Copyright Policy
Authors who publish in Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) license. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. For details of the rights authors grants users of their work, see the "human-readable summary" of the license, with a link to the full license. (Note that "you" refers to a user, not an author, in the summary).
Altitude was founded in 2000. It was published online from issues 1 (2000) to 8 (2007) through the API Network at Curtin University. It was relaunched by Dr Clifton Evers and Dr Emily Potter with a new site and agenda in 2011 with the support of Institute for Creative and Digital Cultures at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China and the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.
ISSN 1444-1160
Disseminating
We are making efforts to disseminate the journal content as widely as possible.The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, maintained by Lund University Libraries. This listing may mean that the journal is listed also in the catalog of your institution's library. If the journal is not listed in the catalog of your institution's library, we encourage you to request that it be listed. Journal articles are included in a long time preservation project that the DOAJ service is running together with the National Library in the Hague, Netherlands. As from 2009-04-01 uploaded PDF's are long time preserved at the e-Depot in the Netherlands (http://www.kb.nl/e-Depot).
Open Access Policy
Open Access enables authors to obtain the maximum possible exposure for their work. Freely available papers are read more, cited more, and have more impact than ones available only to paid subscribers. As an experiment, enter a research topic into a search engine like Google and see how many links you obtain to papers published in traditional journals. You will find that most references are to working papers, not to published papers, because working papers are freely available.
The advent of the web has made free dissemination of research feasible and financially viable. Because existing specialty journals obtain revenues from selling subscriptions, primarily to libraries, access to the research they publish is limited. The attractive revenue stream that such subscriptions provide makes it unlikely that these journals will convert to Open Access. Thus a need exists for new refereed Open Access journals to replace existing journals. We believe that the establishment of Open Access journals will lead others to establish Open Access journals for many sub-fields and specialities, reclaiming full control for the profession of its research output. We hope that this will lead the profession to a new norm in which all research is freely available.
Copyright Policy
Authors who publish in Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) license. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. For details of the rights authors grants users of their work, see the "human-readable summary" of the license, with a link to the full license. (Note that "you" refers to a user, not an author, in the summary).
