Digital health research and the three-thousand-dollar problem
Health is where article processing charges bite hardest, and where the research least able to pay is often the research most worth reading.
Read on →From the editors
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What we are looking for in each field, how review works here, and what publishing without a fee actually involves.
What a new journal can and cannot promise you
We have no impact factor, no Scopus listing and a short back catalogue. Here is the honest case for submitting anyway, and when you should not.
Read on →Research from the global South, without the waiver application
Most technology research is written about the places where technology research is funded. The sample is unusual and the field treats it as general.
Read on →When the numbers and the interviews disagree
Most journals treat a contradiction between methods as a problem to fix before submission. We think it is often the finding, and we will publish it.
Read on →Where to publish technology research without paying a fee
Most open access now means the author pays. It does not have to, and the arithmetic of who gets published changes when it does.
Read on →For historians: technology research that need not be about the last eighteen months
Nearly every claim made about AI today was made about an earlier machine. Historical work is the cheapest correction a field with a short memory can buy.
Read on →What happens to your manuscript after you submit it
Desk screen, reviewer selection, what we ask reviewers to do, and what each decision actually means. Written down so you can hold us to it.
Read on →Publishing sociology of technology without an article processing charge
Sociology has been studying technology for a century. It should not cost three thousand dollars to say so.
Read on →What “the technology has to be in the analysis” means
We accept work from any discipline and reject a lot of it at the desk. This is the line, with examples on both sides of it.
Read on →For teachers and education researchers: publishing what you found
Classroom evidence about technology mostly stays in internal reports, because the journals that would publish it charge more than a school will pay.
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No submission fee, no article processing charge, and authors keep copyright. We publish work on technology from any discipline.
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