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ORONO – The University of Maine has converted its Journal of Research in Rural Education to an exclusively online, open access journal at www.umaine.edu/jrre.
Founded in 1982 by the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development and published through the college’s Center for Research and Evaluation, the journal disseminates the results of educational research relevant to rural settings.
Topics include learning and instruction, educational leadership, educational policy, and the cultural, historical and economic context of rural education. Book reviews are published as well.
By going online, every aspect of the editorial process is rendered less expensive and more efficient, said Theodore Coladarci, journal editor and professor of educational psychology at UMaine. All functions of the journal are now electronic. Authors submit manuscripts as e-mail attachments. Submissions are sent out for review and returned by reviewers in the same fashion. With newly posted articles announced through the journal’s listserv as well as the listservs of several organizations, articles quickly reach many more readers than possible with a print journal, Coladarci said. There are no changes in content or editorial policy.
“JRRE will continue to enjoy the reputation of being the leading research journal devoted to rural education,” Coladarci said. “And now it is free to all.”
All new journal articles will comply with the federally mandated Section 508 Guidelines for Web accessibility. This assures that all users, with and without disabilities, may fully access and benefit from the Web site. Each new article also includes a link to the Acrobat PDF version of the article as well.
Design and technical aspects of the conversion to an online journal was the group effort of Coladarci, managing editor Amy Cates and college Webmaster Alan Parks. Articles published before the online conversion have been archived online. A database containing every article, current and archived, may be searched by title and author.
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