We have now published the second issue of Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research – see www.warwick.ac.uk/go/reinventionjournal
Volume 1 Issue 1 of the journal has proved to be a big success. We have had nearly 600 readers of Vol 1 Iss 1 in the first two months alone and our site has now had 25,000 hits and around three and a half thousand individual visitors. We are now undertaking research to discover how the publishing experience has affected students, including how students' understanding of their area of interest might have been altered. We are also developing training opportunities for students who want to get involved with peer review or want to submit a paper for publication.
Building on our success we are now opening the journal up to submissions from all undergraduate students, rather than just those based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes. This will be an exciting development and any ideas you might have on how we can spread the word of the journal to institutions around the UK and internationally will be gratefully received. Opening up to all students has meant that we have already experienced an increase in submissions for our October 2008 issue - it seems there is a real demand for a publication such as ours and undergraduates are extremely keen to develop their work for publication.
Call for Contributions
An academic journal for the publication of undergraduate research
Peer-reviewed
Online
Published twice a year
Run collaboratively by staff and students at the
University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University
Welcomes submissions from ALL subject areas and ALL undergraduate students
Launch issue and Volume 1, Issue 1 available online
Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research
Reinvention is a new, online, peer-reviewed journal, dedicated to the publication of
high-quality undergraduate student research from all disciplines and all students.
The Reinvention Centre
The journal is funded by the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a
collaborative Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at the
University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University. The Reinvention Centre
promotes research-based learning.
Undergraduate Authors
Reinvention publishes papers based on research carried out by undergraduate
students. The journal is now open to submissions from all undergraduate students in
the UK and overseas.
Multi-disciplinary
Reinvention welcomes submissions from all academic disciplines and aims to
illustrate the range of research currently being conducted by undergraduate
students.
Peer-reviewed
All papers accepted by Reinvention are subject to double-blind peer review. The
journal aims to provide a supportive environment in which students can learn more
about writing for publication and as such reviewers give substantial and constructive
feedback. Training will be provided to enable students to become peer reviewers.
Collaboration
Reinvention is produced, edited and managed by students and staff at Oxford
Brookes University and the University of Warwick. It is published bi-annually in April
and October.
Online
Reinvention is hosted electronically on its own dedicated website:
www.warwick.ac.uk/go/reinventionjournal . The website is fully interactive and allows
photographs, diagrams, URLs and film clips to be embedded into papers.
