This journal hosting service is provided by the Mount Royal University Library and is available to all MRU faculty, students, staff, administrators, centres, institutes, or affiliated community members who are interested in publishing their open access journal. Thanks to our partners at the University of Alberta Libraries, MRU journals benefit from several value-added services including:

 

  • No-fee journal hosting using the Open Journal Systems publishing platform, including system updates and maintenance
  • Article-level DOIs and registration through CrossRef
  • LOCKSS archival preservation through the PKP Preservation Network
  • Assistance to journal managers and editors with journal set-up and management

 

 

For more information and to get started with your journal, please email Richard Hayman (rhayman@mtroyal.ca) or contact your subject librarian. Any questions about a specific journal should be sent to that journal.

Journals

  • Prototyping Across Disciplines

    Prototyping Across Disciplines is a peer-reviewed, trans-disciplinary design journal. Our mission is to champion and expand design’s contribution in research, industry, business, education, and not-for-profit sectors by providing readers with awareness and understanding of the use of prototyping in a wide range of fields. While traditionally associated primarily with industrial design, and more recently with software and web development, prototyping is now used as an important tool in areas ranging from materials engineering to landscape architecture to the digital humanities. By learning what is being done in various disciplines, those already involved in prototyping will be better equipped to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, while those who are not yet active in the use of prototyping in their own fields may find inspiration to begin.

    Publication Frequency

    Prototyping Across Disciplines publishes articles on a rolling basis—each submitted article is reviewed according to an eight to ten-week timeline. Once accepted, reviewed, and revised, the article is published.

    Bottom line: the sooner you submit, the sooner you're likely to be published.

    Discrete issues are formed from all manuscripts published within one of the following publishing windows:

    1. Vol 1 Iss 1 between January 1 and May 31, 2024
    2. Vol 1 Iss 2 between June 1 and December 31, 2024

    Special Issues may be released when appropriate.

  • Ancient Lanka

    Ancient Lanka is a collaboratively peer reviewed and collaboratively edited open access publication that explores Sri Lanka’s past. Following a flexible publication frequency Ancient Lanka uses a multidisciplinary approach in its development of content that is of interest to academics and the general public. Invited reports on archaeological excavations, surveys, material and commentary related to reconstructing the past of Sri Lanka are considered for publication.  

    Disciplines: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Palaeoanthropology, Palaeoecology and cognate disciplines

    Languages: English, Sinhala, Tamil

  • Journal of the Academy of Forensic Nursing

    Focus and scope

    The focus of this journal is to highlight scholarship relevant to forensic nursing and allied forensic professionals. There is an emphasis on understanding the quality of the evidence underlying our practice. We also highlight work of the Academy of Forensic Nursing including the Journal club, Policy Committee, Ethics Committee and Research Committee. A value of the organization is to mentor professionals in conduct and dissemination of quality scholarship through our activities, including this journal. We aim to publish three issues per year.

    History of the journal

    The journal is the official publication of the Academy of Forensic Nursing © (AFN)

     

  • (De)constructing Criminology: International Perspectives

    (De)constructing Criminology: International Perspectives (DCIP) is an international journal which publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, and open access works in criminology and its adjacent disciplines.

    The journal provides a broad forum to deconstruct criminology, its established power structures, and the dominant understandings of criminology and its adjacent disciplines.

    DCIP welcomes research and scholarship in criminology that extends beyond the global west and north, or to extend understandings of decolonization, or to advance discussions or critiques of issues in crime, law, offending, victimisation, criminalisation, and our justice systems. DCIP also welcomes research and scholarship that speaks to how we create knowledge, transfer knowledge, and how it intersects with pedagogical approaches, practice, or research within criminology and its adjacent disciplines. 

    DCIP is committed to removing barriers to publication and dissemination and to increasing access to knowledge for scholars, students, and practitioners. Thus DCIP will be particularly valuable for new and emerging scholars, students, as well as established scholars.

  • Journal of Manual Therapy Science

    The Journal of Manual Therapy Science (JMTS) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to providing a formum for the manual therapy profession to share information dedicated to developing evidence based practices within the profession.  This journal focuses on providing practical and applicable information for practicing manual therapists. 

    The Journal of Manual Therapy Science (JMTS) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access journal focused on manual therapy sciences. Our mission reflects the progression of scientific principles, research integrity and validity, publishing process, and constructive collaboration at foundational levels. We are a fluid publication covering a broad range of current topics in the manual therapy sciences. 

    Publication applications are open to students, undergraduates and graduates as this journal serves to remove barriers to provide confidence to publish.  Provide learning and growth opportunities in continuting education and development.



  • Behavioural Sciences Undergraduate Journal

    The BSUJ is a peer-reviewed, open-access, undergraduate journal focused in the behavioural sciences. Our mission reflects the learning of scientific principles, research integrity, intersectional analysis, publishing process, and constructive collaboration at foundational levels.

    Submissions to the BSUJ focus on research topics in the behavioural sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, health sciences, nursing, gender studies, social work, etc.).

    ISSN 2562-4687

  • Experiences in Spanish-English Translation/Experiencias de traducción español-inglés

    A refereed journal of quality translations produced by undergraduate students of the Spanish program at Mount Royal University

    ISSN 2562-4741

  • El texto hispanoamericano/The Spanish American Text

    This is an archived journal and is no longer actively publishing. These archives are maintained by Mount Royal University Library.

    El texto hispanoamericano/The Spanish American text published essays on topics of Spanish American Literature, written in Spanish by undergraduate students following courses offered by the Spanish Program at Mount Royal University.

    ISSN 2562-5284

  • Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR)

    The Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR) is an online, student-run, annual journal of undergraduate research in the Humanities. The MRUHR invites submissions from Mount Royal University students of essays or other kinds of intellectual work appropriate for an online journal that are relevant to the subjects taught by the Mount Royal Department of Humanities (History, Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Canadian Studies, or Art History).

    ISSN 2562-4733

  • Mount Royal Undergraduate Education Review

    This is an archived journal and is no longer actively publishing. These archives are maintained by Mount Royal University Library.

    The Mount Royal Undergraduate Education Review focuses on the academic journey of teacher candidates in Mount Royal University’s Bachelor of Education program. 

    ISSN 2368-0024

  • Imagining SoTL

    Imagining SoTL: Selections from the Banff Symposium (IS), an annual open access publication, stems from the annual Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), hosted by the Mokakiiks Centre for SoTL at Mount Royal University.