Emile Durkheim
Sociation Today®
ISSN 1542-6300
The Official Journal of the
North Carolina Sociological
Association
A Peer-Reviewed Open Access
Refereed Web-Based
Publication
Fall/Winter 2014
Volume 12, Issue 2
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Copyright,
Open Access, Reprint
and Quality-Control Issues Sociation Today is an open-access sociology
journal. It is refereed and quality
controlled. All articles submitted are
reviewed (refereed). The members of the
Editorial Board are listed on the home page
and at the bottom of each article, along
with our institutional affiliations.
These are the men and women who do most of
the refereeing for us.
Sociation Today is published by the North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA), a non-profit group. The web address for NCSA is www.ncsociology.org/new. Sociation Today has a shortcut at www.sociationtoday.org. No officer of NCSA is paid nor receives any allowance for travel to meetings or for any other reason. We are all volunteers. All the editorial board members and the editor of Sociation Today are also volunteers. Sociation Today does not charge to review manuscripts nor do we charge to publish them. We do copyright our materials for quality control purposes. However, we do not charge anyone to read the materials (thus open access). Nor is there a charge to reprint an article BUT we do ask for you to inform us of any interest in reprinting AND to give the author and the journal credit. You may not modify or rewrite an article. Authors are free to use their own article in any way they wish, but would need to mention that it was published first in Socation Today. We do not accept articles that have been previously published. As a regional society, most of our authors are in the region and thus the problem of plagiarism has not been an issue with us. One of the goals of Sociation Today has been to make available to the public refereed, scholarly sociological articles without charging high fees like JSTOR. Open access means knowledge should be free. For us, it is. Sociation Today is web-based. Our ISSN number is ISSN 1542-6300. We are a member of the EBSCO publishing group. The EBSCO data base provides us with a way of making sure our articles have a permanent home maintained by another organization. Most university libraries in the United States are a member of EBSCO. Sociological Abstracts lets other sociologists know of articles. In the past Sociation Today has been a member of DOAJ, a group which listed our journal as an open access source and maintained our index of past issues, a valuable service. We were invited to join this group after our first issue. However, recently our index seems to have disappeared and they are demanding the all journals reapply for "membership." Thus any future relation with this group is unclear at the present time. In the meantime, please use Google Scholar. I will post here any future developments with DOAJ. It seems that the reapplication made in January 2015 was rejected because it was not submitted through the internal sign-in, but via. email with an attached form. Thus the reapplication was rejected, which I did not know until a reminder came. Thus I have sent in a second reapplication. There seem to be numerous European organizations on copyright that they want you to agree to, but which do not change our policies. When I do get permissions to reproduce an article, I always have said "yes." As an open access journal, there is never a fee. George H. Conklin, Editor Updated September 28, 2015.
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